Rudolf Hilferding

“The bank is, so to speak, the general manager of the money capitalists.”

“The export of capital, especially since it has assumed the form of industrial and finance capital, has enormously accelerated the overthrow of all the old pre-capitalist social relations.”

“An ever-increasing proportion of the capital of industry does not belong to the industrialists who employ it.”

“The policy of finance capital has three objectives: first, to establish the largest possible economic territory; second, to close this territory to foreign competition... and third, to reserve it as an area of exploitation for the national monopolistic combines.”

“The state, as the executive committee of the ruling class, cannot be neutral.”

“The socializing function of finance capital facilitates enormously the task of overcoming capitalism.”

“The demand for a protectionist policy is itself a consequence of the domination of cartels.”

“The policy of finance capital has three objectives: first, the creation of the largest possible economic territory; second, the exclusion of foreign competition; and third, the reservation of the territory thus monopolized as an area of exploitation.”

“The socializing function of finance capital facilitates enormously the task of overcoming capitalism.”

“Finance capital signifies the unification of capital. The previously separate spheres of industrial, commercial and bank capital are now brought under the common direction of high finance.”

“The characteristic feature of finance capital is that it is not employed by its owners.”

“Finance capital is the money of the banks which is then used by the industrialists.”

“The tendency of finance capital is to establish social control of production.”

“An ever-increasing proportion of the capital of industry does not belong to the industrialists who employ it.”

“They obtain it only through the bank, which, in relation to them, represents the owner of the capital.”

“Once finance capital has brought the most important branches of production under its control, it is enough to have society... seize finance capital in order to gain immediate control.”

“The specific character of capital is that it is money which is used to produce a surplus value.”

“Finance capital does not want liberty, it wants domination.”

“'Organized capitalism' means replacing the capitalist principle of free competition by the socialist principle of planned production.”

“Imperialism is the political expression of the accumulation of capital in its competitive struggle for what is left of the non-capitalist world.”