Financial Capital, Imperialism and War

Translation of book by Alexander Koh in 1927 without statistics.

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FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE FIRST EDITION

The study of modern, i.e., financial capitalism, must constitute, and to some extent already constitutes, the main part of the course of political economy in our general education schools, as well as in party schools and Komsomol universities. Meanwhile, in our book market there are still no textbooks for this most important part of the course.

The present work is an attempt, at least in part, to fill this gap.

Our book is a teaching aid and only a teaching aid. The author, of course, does not claim originality or independence of the conclusions - the work is based on the Leninist concept.

MOBILIZATION OF CAPITAL

 Distribution of the joint-stock form of enterprises 

Reasons for the spread of joint-stock companies 

Joint-stock form of the enterprise 

Constituent profits 

Issue of bonds 

Joint stock company as an instrument of domination of large capitals over small ones

The system of "subsidiaries, enterprises.

NEW ROLE OF BANKS

Banks as organizational centers of industry.

Banking Concerns (Merged Business Groups)

Concentration of Banks

Merging industrial capital with credit

Company for funding

Industrial ”Concerns.” Stinnes “Concern”

CAPITALIST MONOPOLY

Syndicates, cartels, trusts, capitalist monopolies

 Financial-capitalist state

IMPERIALISM

Competition in the global market

Fight for markets

The struggle for the markets of raw materials

The export of capital 

The rebirth of capitalist competition. Militarism

Imperialism as a policy of financial capital

Imperialism as the last stage of capitalism