China Communist Party News Network, Beijing, March 16 (Cao Miao) Recently, the eleventh lecture in the series of "Reviewing Marxist Classics" of the reading activity "Strengthening Quality and Setting an Example" of the central and state organs was launched, inviting Zhang Yan, a professor of the School of Marxism of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), With the theme of "deepening the understanding of the laws of profound and complex changes in capitalism and international political and economic relations", guide the reading of "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism".
Zhang Yan said that "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism" is the inheritance and development of Marx's "Das Kapital". In this book, Lenin summarized the development of capitalism in the half century after the publication of Das Kapital according to the basic principles of Marxism, pointing out that capitalism has developed to a new stage - the stage of imperialism. Lenin used the method of the unity of history and logic to investigate the process of the formation and development of capitalist monopoly, and summarized the major changes in the development of world capitalism as the five basic economic characteristics of imperialism: the high concentration of production and capital resulted in monopoly organizations that played a decisive role in economic life; Banking capital and industrial capital are merged into financial capital, and on this basis, financial oligarchs are formed; Capital export, which is different from commodity export, is of special significance; An international monopoly alliance of capitalists has been formed to carve up the world; The capitalist powers have divided up the territory of the world.
Zhang Yan said that there are internal logical links between the basic economic characteristics of imperialism. Monopoly organizations were first formed in industrial sectors with highly concentrated production; The concentration and monopoly of industry has caused the concentration and monopoly of banks, which has fundamentally changed the role of banks. On the basis of the integration of industrial monopoly capital and bank capital, financial capital and financial oligarchs have formed. They not only establish domestic domination, but also seek international domination; The international domination of financial capital and financial oligarchs is based on capital export; Capital export will inevitably lead to the division of the world by the capitalist alliance and the direct division of the world territory by the great powers.
