5 Point Definition
Capitalist enterprises combining in massive proportions which strangle competition
Monopolies
Selling out the long-term interests of the revolution in favor of the short term interests
Opportunism
Wars between imperialist countries for the redivision of the world
Imperialist war
The era of capitalism preceding imperialism
Free competition capitalism
Areas where a specific imperialist power dominates a country
Spheres of influence
This replaces other commodities as the chief export of imperialist countries
Export of capital
The liberal wish to have no more wars without analyzing the economic content which drives them
Pacifism
Formerly middlemen between capitalists, under imperialism these control entire economies
Banks
This actual foreign policy system laid the groundwork of claiming territories and peoples for the great powers primarily through the 17th-20th centuries
Colonialism
Profits over and above the average rate of profit that monopolies can extract through exploiting colonies and neocolonies
Superprofits
When all of the world is divided up among the imperialist powers, the imperialist countries must do this gain control of new markets and resources
Redivision of the world
an organization of communist organizations across the world, though principally from Europe. Despite signing declarations to the contrary, the vast majority of the parties in this organization would desert the socialist cause to the side of the bourgeoisie of their own countries during WWI
The Second International
A means by which an imperialist country can control another through lending money
Loans
The philosophy of Marxism, which posits that there is nothing in the world except matter in motion
Dialectical Materialism
The method through which one capital can control many other smaller capitals by owning stock in the smaller capitals
Holding System
The combination of industrial and banking capital
Finance capital
The theory of sharing the world amicably among the imperialist powers
Ultra-imperialism
The fundamental contradiction of capitalism, which intensifies under imperialism
Social labor vs. private appropriation
Socialism in name, but in practice lining up behind one's own imperialist bourgeoisie
Social-chauvinism
A section of capitalists who lives exclusively off of speculation and is totally divorced from production
Rentiers (+400 if you pronounce it correctly)