Editing Social-imperialism

'''Social-imperialism''' is an [[idealist]] term commonly used by [[Ultra-leftist|ultra-leftists]], such as [[Maoism|Maoists]] and [[Anti-revisionism|"anti-revisionists"]], to explain their belief that [[Actually existing socialism|socialist states]] like the Soviet Union and post-Mao China had become [[Imperialism|imperialist]].  

The term originated in a one-off quote by [[Vladimir Lenin]], where he describes the [[liberal]] [[Social democracy|social democractic]] [[SPD]] as "socialist in name, imperialist in deeds"<ref>

</ref>; afterward, the term was not used again until it was reintroduced by [[Mao]] after the [[Sino-Soviet split]], used to describe the post-Stalin USSR as a "Hitlerite imperialist state". It saw further use by [[Enver Hoxha]], for example in his treatise "Imperialism and the Revolution"; notably, neither Mao nor Hoxha ever explained what the material basis of a "social-imperialist" state would be, and what the social formation of such a state looked like.  

Imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism, would require there to be sufficiently developed capitalist monopolies. It is left unexplained by proponents of the theory of "social-imperialism" how exactly it is possible for a socialist state to become capitalist without an outright [[Counterrevolution|counter-revolution]]; in this sense, the theory of "social-imperialism" is a [[reformist]] and [[revisionist]] idea that suggests it is not necessary for the [[Class society|class character]] of a state to change for it to shift between capitalism and socialism.