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For private property is sacred, and no one can be prohibited from buying, selling, exchanging or mortgaging shares, etc.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
The principal feature of modern capitalism is the domination of monopolist combines of the big capitalists.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
The transformation of numerous intermediaries into a handful of monopolists represents one of the fundamental processes in the transformation of capitalism into capitalist imperialism.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
Thus, in one way or another, the whole world is more or less the debtor to and vassal of these forn international banker countries, the four "pillars" of world finance capital.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
A monopoly, once it is formed and controls thousands of millions, inevitably penetrates into every sphere of public life, regardless of the form of government and all other "details".
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
Crises of every kind - economic crises more frequently, but not only these - in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
Under the old type of capitalism, when free competition prevailed, the export of goods was the most typical feature. Under modern capitalism, when monopolies prevail, the exporter of capital has become the typical feature.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
Modern monopolist capitalism on a world-wide scale — imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the partition of all the territories of the globe among the great capitalist powers has been completed.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
The principal and primary function of banks is to serve as an intermediary in the making of payments. In doing so they transform inactive money capital into active capital, that is, into capital producing a profit; they collect all kinds of money revenues and place them at the disposal of the capitalist class.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
The statement that cartels can abolish crises is a fable spread by bourgeois economists who at all costs desire to place capitalism in a favorable light. On the contrary, when monopoly appears in certain branches of industry, it increases and intensifies the anarchy inherent in capitalist production as a whole.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
Generally speaking, under capitalism, the ownership of capital is separate from the application of capital to production; money capital is separate from industrial or productive capital; the rentier, living entirely on income obtained from money capital, is separated from the entrepreneur and from all those directly concerned in the management of capital.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
The war of 1914-18 was imperialist (that is, an annexationist, predatory, war of plunder) on the part of both sides; it was a war for the division of the world, for the partition and repartition of colonies and spheres of influence of finance capital.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)