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They need some way to materially support them, though. If they don’t have a foothold in a country, they can’t traffic arms, train terrorists, control the domestic media, etc.
Yes, but it’s barely a threat compared to what it used to be, and it’s becoming less and less influential with time
Yes, but at that time Amerika was the sole superpower, and that isn’t the case anymore. There also hasn’t been a time where a socialist country (China) was “in the lead” before, both in terms of domestic production and foreign policy. Capitalists can try to move to influential non-socialist countries like Russia, but I doubt they’ll be able to take over the government
Of course, capitalists won’t disappear until capitalism ends, but having a capitalist bloc doesn’t mean that imperialism will be able to continue (and that will hopefully speed up the rise of socialism in those countries as living standards fall). The flag they wave doesn’t really matter, but the dwindling possibility of imperialist exploitation does