whatever, whose profession is idleness. The export of capital, one of the most essential economic bases of imperialism, still more completely isolates the rentiers from production and sets the seal of parasitism on the whole country that lives by exploiting the labour of several overseas countries and colonies. Current usage Current usage of the term 'rentier capitalism' describes the gaining of 'rentier' income from ownership or control of assets that generate economic rents rather than from capital or labour used for production in a free competitive market. The term rentier state is mainly used not in its original meaning, as an imperialistic state thriving on labor of other countries and colonies, but as a state which derives all or a substantial portion of its national revenues from the rent of indigenous resources to external clients. Guy Standing has claimed rentier capitalism has become predominant in capitalistic economies since the 1980s. Brett Christophers of Uppsala University, Sweden has asserted that rentier capitalism has been the foundation of the United Kingdom's economic policy from the 1970s onwards. With the return of high inflation to the United Kingdom in 2022, political economist William Davies surveys recent British economic events in light of rentier capitalism. See also Crony capitalism Financialization Parasitism (social offense) Rentier state Rent-seeking References Bibliography Robert Pollin, "Resurrection of the Rentier", in New Left Review 46, July–August 2007, pp. 140–153. Karl Marx, "The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts", Institute of Marxism–Leninism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1932. The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts Karl Marx, "Theories of Surplus-Value", Progress Publishers, 1863. Economic Manuscripts: Theories of Surplus-Value by Karl Marx 1863 Vladimir Lenin, "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", Lenin's Selected Works, Progress Publishers, 1963, Moscow, Volume 1, pp. 667–766. Lenin: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism' Ahmed Henni, Le capitalisme de rente: De la société du travail industriel à la société des rentiers. Paris: Harmattan, 2012. Guy Standing, The Corruption of Capitalism Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay (2016) Capitalism Marxist terminology