Depends on the definition. In Lenin’s Imperialism, the highest form of capitalism, he defines five criteria:

And so, without forgetting the conditional and relative value of all definitions in general, which can never embrace all the concatenations of a phenomenon in its complete development, we must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:

1. the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;

2. the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy;

3. the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;

4. the formation of international monopolist capitalist combines which share the world among themselves, and

5. the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.

1 and 2 apply with some caveats, 3 and 4 are a yes (WTO, UN, BRICS, etc), and 5 should be seen through a soft-power neo colonialist lens with China’s influence in Africa for example.

This is not meant to be anti-China or whatever, anything China has done pales in comparison with US imperialism, just that I don’t think it’s a completely baseless accusation.

Wrestlers oil one another prior to matches as a demonstration of balance and mutual respect.

If a man defeats an older opponent, he kisses the latter’s hand (a sign of respect for elders in Turkey).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_wrestling

Proprietary

Just get a refurbished/second hand one, many are as good as new

If I had to change phones now, I’d get a second-hand/refurbished Pixel and wait until the motorola devices take on. Fairphone is nice but lacks in security. The high price is only because of the “fair” small-scale production, the specs are quite mid for the price. I say this as a fp owner, I’m happy but if I had to choose again I’d go about it differently.

Germans, all the time

I don’t disagree but this still happens in non slop open source projects

Choviva is not very good imo. Good enough for some cookies or müsli though, products where the chocolate content is small and not high quality. And I’m someone who is generally charitable with alternatives a la mock meat, cheeses, etc. It tastes like toasty fat.

I appreciate the effort and I will check it out. However imo the original works (ie Marx, Engels, Lenin) are too dense for a begginer, I feel there has to be a softer learning curve, with more digested content. For example I’m reading the Vietnamese textbook and I think it does a very good job at explaining excerpts of the originals in accessible language. Denser doesn’t mean more accurate or better in all cases, just generally harder to read.

No channels

Not open source