“We must now try to sum up, to draw together the threads of what has been said above on the subject of imperialism. Imperialism emerged as the development and direct continuation of the fundamental characteristics of capitalism in general. But capitalism only became capitalist imperialism at a definite and very high stage of its development, when certain of its fundamental characteristics began to change into their opposites, when the features of the epoch of transition from capitalism to a higher social and economic system had taken shape and revealed themselves in all spheres. Economically, the main thing in this process is the displacement of capitalist free competition by capitalist monopoly. Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions. At the same time the monopolies, which have grown out of free competition, do not eliminate the latter, but exist above it and alongside it, and thereby give rise to a number of very acute, intense antagonisms, frictions and conflicts. Monopoly is the transition from capitalism to a higher system.” (from “Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism”)
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“Bakit mahalagang pag-aralan ang buhay ng dakilang mga gurong komunista? Mahalagang pagaralan ang buhay ng mga dakilang gurong komunista,sina Karl Marx, Frederik Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin at Mao Zedong, dahil itinuturo nila ang taus-pusong pagmamahal sa kapwa nang walang pagsasaalang-alang sa sarili – isang diwa ng ganap na di pagkamakasarili. Ipinamalas ng kanilang naging buhay ang walang hanggang pagpapahalaga sa kanilang gawain sa pagtataguyod ng proletaryong rebolusyon, at sa kanilang gabundok na pagmamalasakit sa lahat ng kasamang rebolusyonaryo at mamamayan.” (mula sa introduksyon)
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