Finance Capital: On Late-Stage Capitalism, the Definitive Edition

New translation of a crucial study of modern capitalism, famously used by Lenin as his basis for analyzing imperialism.

This is a new translation by Ben Fowkes of the classic book by the twentieth century German socialist leader Rudolf Hilferding, first published in 1910.

Finance Capital offers an unusual Marxist pathway towards an understanding of macroeconomics and financialisation. But the study also illuminates the background to the First World War (and indeed wars in general). It was fam...