Thursday, June 9, 2022

Question :" Did you just classify the Nazi German society as a free market?

No, granting monopolies to large corporations like Krupp is not “capitalist,” unless you severely twist the word."

Charles Brown:

Monopoly capital dominates all capitalist countries not just Germany beginning with the late 1800’s. It’s the monopoly capital phase of capitalist history . Capitalist competition inherently tends to monopoly. Why ? because eventually a few capitalists win the competition as in the game monopoly.

For example , car manufacturing companies were dozens at first . Eventually, it was just the Big Three . The dominant monopolies now are Finance Capital , the 1%.

“As soon as this process of transformation has sufficiently decomposed the old society from top to bottom, as soon as the labourers are turned into proletarians, their means of labour into capital, as soon as the capitalist mode of production stands on its own feet, then the further socialisation of labour and further transformation of the land and other means of production into socially exploited and, therefore, common means of production, as well as the further expropriation of private proprietors, takes a new form. That which is now to be expropriated is no longer the labourer working for himself, but the capitalist exploiting many labourers. This expropriation is accomplished by the action of the immanent laws of capitalistic production itself, by the centralisation of capital. One capitalist always kills many. Hand in hand with this centralisation, or this expropriation of many capitalists by few, develop, on an ever-extending scale, the cooperative form of the labour process, the conscious technical application of science, the methodical cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the instruments of labour into instruments of labour only usable in common, the economising of all means of production by their use as means of production of combined, socialised labour, the entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world market, and with this, the international character of the capitalistic regime. Along with the constantly diminishing number of the magnates of capital, who usurp and monopolise all advantages of this process of transformation, grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation;

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch01.htmhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch03.htm

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