What I take from Hobson and Lenin is the idea that imperialism comes in stages. I'm pushing their sequence one step further, to the export of inference capital, i.e., the highest stage of the algorithm.
How the word moved
I brought them in during April and May 2026, first in AI Polyconflict Part V and then in Cognitive Sovereignty. Lenin sharpening Hobson in 1916 is the setup for my own one-word swap.
In my words
"Lenin sharpened Hobson’s analysis in 1916."
from Cognitive Sovereignty, 7 May 2026
Related
- Related Inference Capital - the next stage after the ones they described.
- Related Cognitive Imperialism - what imperialism looks like today.