Recently, Marxist Michael Roberts attended a conference sponsored by a group called Promotion of Political Economy, a meeting point for heterodox economists. He discusses the nature of imperialism today and how much (or little) it has changed since Lenin wrote his book. How prevalent is finance capital today? Is it a separate stage or a sub-category of industrial capitalism? Is China in a transition to socialism? If so, what are the characteristics of the transition?
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