It’s always amusing to me when someone “independently rediscovers” the exact same things that Marx and Lenin had already figured out over a hundred years ago, give it a fancy name and then act like it’s some great new revelation. In summary: it turns out that geopolitical policy is driven by the financial and economic interests of the ruling class, and not simply by the rational self-interest of states as the “realists” like to believe. It’s almost as if imperialism is the result of a certain monopoly stage of capitalist development. If only someone had written a book about this. If only someone had explained to the “realists” that states are not mystical self-actualizing entities but instruments of class rule.
This reminds me of one maoist writing lenghty posts on how countries can either be entirely colonized or entirely (and independently) imperialist.
Maoists when they see South Africa and how it as an arpethied crown colony colonized and subjugated Mozambique and Angola.