ruling hundreds of millions of wage slaves.
27. Imperialism.
In individual countries the effect of the sway of financial capital is, in a certain measure, to put an end to the anarchy of capitalist production. The various producers, who have hitherto been fighting one another, now join forces in a State capitalist trust.
But what happens in this case to one of the fundamental contradictions of capitalism? We have said more than once that capitalism will inevitably break down because of its lack of organisation and because it is affected by the class struggle. Now if one of these two contradictions (see § 13) is invalid, may it not be that the prediction concerning the collapse of capitalism has no foundation?
The point we chiefly have to consider is this. In actual fact the anarchy of production and competition has not ceased. Or perhaps it would be better to say that it ceases in one place to break out worse than ever in another. Let us endeavour