Characteristics of the Imperialist countries

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, the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this ‘finance capital’, of a financial oligarchy, the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance, the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.

France:

·      Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Idaho.

Germany:

·      German Southwest (Namibia)

·      German East Africa (now part of Tanzania)

·      Cameroon

·      Togo

In the imperialism, democracy is absent because it relies on kings and emperors, so no one has voice or vote in the countries’ decisions. For example, the imperialist bourgeoisie struggled to re-divide markets again and again on the one hand, and compromised for the common interests of imperialism, on the other