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Imperialism, the domination of finance capital over all other capital, is strongest and biggest in the 4 oldest capitalist countries - Britain, France, the US and Germany - which account for 80% of the world finance capital making the rest of the world subservient to them.

Hay un caballo abandonado

The few big monopolies benefit with the issuance of small stock companies as they can simply buy 50% - or as low as 40% given many companies' small owners cannot actually vote - of their capital and control them, thus controlling far more capital than they actually need to spend.

Don Quijote y Sancho Panza se encuentran con un hombre sin nada de vestir excepto medias, lo van a aprehender.

The XX century is when capital in general became finance capital.

III. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy

The banks are the ultimate monopolists as they hold the capital of their clients and know all about them, thus making their large industrialist clients all the more dependent on them.

II. BANKS AND THEIR NEW ROLE

Banks are intermediaries of inactive capital into profit-making capital, and thus they're the interconnecting web of capitalism, and just like the rest of capitalism banks are consolidating into a few large monopolies.

Le quitan las espojas a el criminal y le dicen que se valla a donde Dulcinea del Toboso.

Capítulo XXIII

These large monopolistic cartel enterprises engage in numerous tactics to keep their monopolies, and the bourgeois economist of course does everything it can to justify them.

The rise of monopoly-capitalism can be broadly characterized in 3 stages.
1860-1873 The embryonic stage where monopolies were starting to take shape.
1873-1903 Crisis hits, cartels form to ensure their profits.
1903-Present(1917) Monopoly capitalism has arrived in full force.

The largest enterprises, while only 1% or less of the total number of them, consume over three-fourths of all the steam and electric power.

PREFACE

This text has been written with Tsarist censorship in mind, so it must remain a theoretical and largely economic examination of Imperialism. Tho I do not doubt the reader will be easily able to replace 'Japan' with 'Russia' and 'Korea' with 'Finland, Ukraine, Poland, Central Asia, Estonia, Courland'.

We must oppose reformist, opportunist, and bourgeois elements like Kautskyism or the German SPD.

Qué pudo haber hecho un criminal para estar más atado que todos los otros galeotes combinados? Aparentemente es tan peligroso que lo necesita. No quiere que lo llamen por su supuesto nombre.

Return to 20 March

No one wants adversity or difficult times, but we should want that when adversity comes, we're ready to confront it.

19 March

The obstacle isn't in the outside, but the inside.

18 March

Outside events, people, circumstances cannot affect us, we affect ourselves.

17 March

It's not what we wear or how we dress that's nice or ugly, it's us inside who are nice or ugly, and the choices we make and things we do that are nice or ugly.

16 March

Be grateful and thankful for your reasoning. Many people don't have it and could only wish they did.

15 March

The past is gone and you cannot do anything about it. The future isn't here so it's no use worrying about it. That leaves only the present, the only time worth thinking and using, so let's use it.

14 March

There is no greater barrier to learning than self-deception. No one learns what they think they already know. We must then treat ego with hostility, even if it must be one day at a time.

13 March

Whenever we get angry at something bad that happened, remember it could also be the start of something that turns out better than even we could've imagined.

12 March

Everyone thinks they're correct, after all, no one is willingly being wrong. Next time someone does something wrong against you remember this and take this into account, also for yourself.

11 March

Too many people are slaves to money, attention, fame, power. It's better to be free than a slave to marble and gold.

10 March

It's always good to have someone with you to tell you what's good or bad when on your daily life, but if it's too difficult to actually find someone to do that with, then train yourself to be that person.

9 March

Tell me who you spend time with, and I'll tell you how you are. Curate what kind of person you spend time with because you become like them.

8 March

We rightfully safeguard our body from what others might do to it, but then we happily give our mind to anyone and anything around us, when it's our mind that's the most valuable thing. Our mind the is the only thing we fully control, so give it only to that which is worthy.

7 March

Our senses may deceive us, so take things calmly and evaluate the situation before jumping to conclusions or reacting before you have the full picture.