Global Scramble for Rare Earth Minerals Intensifies - Revolutionary Communists of America

Global Scramble for Rare Earth Minerals Intensifies - Revolutionary Communists of America

In his famous work Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin wrote: Finance capital is interested not only in the already discovered sources of raw materials but also in potential sources, because present-day technical development is extremely rapid … This also applies to prospecting for minerals, to new methods of processing up and utilizing raw materials, etc., etc. Hence, the inevitable striving of finance capital to enlarge its sph…