The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-05-20
EMENTS OF POLITICAL EDU-
CATION
CONTINUED from last week.
II. WHAT is THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALIST MONO
POLES?
CONTINUED from last week.

POLES!
The appearance and development of capitalist
monopolies d. E., capitalist cartels syndicates and
trusts having control of the markets marks the
beginning of new period in the life and history
of capitalism In its initial period capitalism lives
and develops under the conditions of ruthless IN
ternal competition. This struggle between the
capitalist enterprises brings in its train the ruin
of the weak and backward enterprises and their
replacement by the continually stronger and more
powerful alliances with the hghest-developed pro-
duction methods in all branches of capitalist econ
omy Competition is a powerful mover in the
development Of engineering under capitalism and
assists in melting capitalist enterprise and in
ventveness on the part of the capitalist-entrepre
neurs.
Consequently, the ruins of the small bust
nesses in all countries, at the cost of the sweat
and blood of millions of the working masses,
there takes place colossal and rapid growth of
the productive forces in the capitalist states
With the development of capitalist monopoles
the other side of the picture begins to appear
Monopoly among the capitalist syndicates and
trusts, killing off competition annihilates this
powerful motive force which made the capitalists,
for fear of ruin of their enterprises and in the
interests of victory over their rivals and compet-
tors continually develop production methods, mani
fest inventiveness and enterprise and raise the
productive forces
Under conditions of capitalist monopoly, the
capitalists beginning to reach their basic goal
the expansion of profit and enrichment-not by
improving production methods but by raising the
prices of their commodities lowering the wages
of the workers, and REINFORCED exploitation of
the agricultural masses of the backward coun-
tries, particularly the colonies, from which many
kinds Of materials Cotton, sugar beets, WOOL
etc. are obtained for the big capitalist countries
In this way in the modern period of capitalism
there appear conditions of arrest and stagnatior
of the productive forces
On the other hand with the extension of corpor
ate enterprises, particularly trusts, the capita
e invested in industry becomes freed to consider
able extent from connection with definite persons
. capitalist enterpreneurs. The place of the CAPT
talist enterpreneurs is taken more and more b!
the capitalist-stockholde e., the representa-
S tives of money capital, the modern parasites ant
i usurers. More and more they cease to take an!
part in the direct management of capitalist enter
A prises. Their role becomes reduced more ant
i more to the cutting of coupons and to the recev
d inevitable growth in modern capitalism of tn
Al separate class of RENTERS, e., people who liv
/ by cutting coupons" and are completely separ
k ated from any participation in the running o
3 capitalist enterprises.
The profession of this class is idle parasitisn
made enrichment and burning-up Of life.
Z This trait-the parastism Of modern capitalist
stockholders, is also characteristic popularity
in the contemporary stage of capitalism, and thi
parasitic character together with the retarding
n the development of the productive forces as r.
W suit of the modern monopoles leads to the cor
If dtiOn that capitalism beginning roughly with tn
10th century, enters into period of decay an
internal decomposition.
X And in proportion as competition among cap
talists disappears, in proportion as monopoli,
,b grow and the transformation of capitalists I'M
he stockholders, i. E., contemporaries increase
al these tendencies to stagnaton of the producti1
t. forces and to the decay of capitalism takes mo-
n and more the upper hand and put before Il
working class the problem of Overthrowing car
ed talist society and replacing it by a new orde
es without private property or exploitation.
Sc II. WHAT INFLUENCE HAS THE DEVELOP
nd MENT OF CAPITALIST NONOPOLIES O
N COMPETITION AND ANARCHY UNDE
is CAPITALISM?
rs
Capitalist monopolies (as was stated previou
ly) curtail and annul competition within the d
-, ferent branches of capitalist economy and with
a. different capitalist states. But this does n
- mean that with the development of captai
:. monopolies the anarchy and competition inhere
- In capitalism are completely effaced. It is abo
co this that the capitalist economists and the soc
80 democratic compromsers continually talk, and
this that they set their hopes. In reality the ca
ots ltalist world and the biggest contemporary ca
,og talist mOnopolies present picture of an infu
oh ated and unheard-of struggle not only thru ecc
zee omlc means, but also in open armed conflicts
7s tween the different groups of capitalists and
% italist states. The explanation is that with
,7o growth of cartels syndicates and trusts compe
,o ton begins 20 rage between the capitalist syn
IKE Gates and trusts, particularly on the world m;
100 ket, where anarchy continues to rule; and t
,eo competition is the more embittered and dew
,e1 tating the stronger the gigantic syndicates a
no trusts of the great capitalist states, which coll
- with one another in the struggle for the mastt
1oo of the world market and for the final conquest
~ the markets of different countries.
nee 1t is true that in the second decade of the q
non century carte1s svncfcatac OIL 4.,,n+o -, 1uo