Imperialism, Multipolarity, and the International Communist Movement
Abstract
This article examines the central ideological divisions within global communism regarding the present geopolitical order and the nature of imperialism in the twenty-first century. Responding to the framework advanced by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its “imperialist pyramid” theory — which posits that all nations, including socialist and anti-imperialist states, participate in a singular global imperialist hierarchy — the paper argues that this interpretation distorts Lenin’s original theory of imperialism and serves to obscure the principal contradiction in world politics today: that between the declining unipolar U.S.-EU-NATO bloc and the emerging multipolar, anti-imperialist forces led by Russia, China, and their allies. Drawing on Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism and the writings of Marxist economists such as Paul Baran, the author reaffirms a scientific, materialist understanding of imperialism rooted in monopoly finance capital and geopolitical hegemony. The paper contends that multipolarity, while not the final stage of socialist transformation, represents a progressive development that expands political and economic space for global movements resisting Western domination. In conclusion, it calls for unity among anti-imperialist and socialist forces under the banner of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, asserting that only through coordinated struggle against Euro-Atlantic imperialism can humanity achieve peace and the conditions for socialist construction.
Keywords
imperialism, multipolarity, Marxism–Leninism, anti-imperialism, international communist Movement, Christopher Helali
