Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Finance, the economy & Economics What is inflation, anyway?

I also suspect its really time to start breaking up the huge tech companies. Doing that will really help overall.

The development of monopoly capitalism molded the US political system into something resembling its current form, in which both major parties serve to defend and further the fundamental interests of the capitalists.

Lenin analyzed this phenomenon in his work Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. He described the emergence of monopolies, the eventual dominance of finance capital, corresponding to a division of world markets among the most economically developed nations. This transformation, which had reached maturity in advanced capitalist countries like the US by the end of World War I, required ever greater state intervention in critical sectors of the economy while remaining entirely capitalist.