I'm not going to quibble with the details, but there's a key point that needs to be emphasized. It's true that Lenin's theory of imperialism was seriously flawed, but he was right that imperialism is a social system of power and not (as Kautsky maintained) merely a policy of government backed by one fraction of capital.And the US is not imperialism as much as it is the hegemon in the imperialist system.
-- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
