Imperialism
is a hierarchical global system where exploitation and subordination are enforced not through colonial territories, but through the structural pairing of internationalized productive capital with globalized financial capital, all anchored by the U.S. dollar as world money
Digital Capitalism
represents an intensification of commodification and financialisation, where digital platforms and technologies extract and appropriate vast amounts of data—often uncompensated—from users as a form of “digital primitive accumulation,” while simultaneously enabling new forms of monopoly rent, financial intermediation, and labor exploitation through gig work and algorithmic control.
Financialisation
refers to a historical turning point since the late 1970s where non-financial corporations increasingly accumulate profits through financial transactions rather than productive activity, while banks shift from lending to productive capital toward extracting profits from households