A 1963 Soviet textbook explained 2025 America better than any liberal think tank ever could.
Finance capital. State capture. Corporate welfare. Cosmopolitan oligarchy.
Here’s what they warned us about - and how it became your daily life. 🧵
Finance capital. State capture. Corporate welfare. Cosmopolitan oligarchy.
Here’s what they warned us about - and how it became your daily life. 🧵
Finance capital isn't just "big money".
It's the fusion of industrial monopolies and banking empires into a single, commanding bloc.
It does not sell goods—it allocates the conditions of life.
Prices, wages, currencies, supply chains, even election outcomes are directed by boardrooms, not ballots.
The result is not free enterprise but strategic central planning—by unelected oligarchs.
The real government is composed of asset managers, bondholders, and transnational dealmakers.
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It's the fusion of industrial monopolies and banking empires into a single, commanding bloc.
It does not sell goods—it allocates the conditions of life.
Prices, wages, currencies, supply chains, even election outcomes are directed by boardrooms, not ballots.
The result is not free enterprise but strategic central planning—by unelected oligarchs.
The real government is composed of asset managers, bondholders, and transnational dealmakers.
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The Soviets named them: Rothschild, Morgan, Dupont, Rockefeller.
Today, it’s BlackRock, Vanguard, JPMorgan, and a network of financial institutions that encircle the globe.
This class does not participate in capitalism—it directs it.
They control credit, shape policy, staff governments, and decide which sectors live or die.
Their power is not theoretical. It’s measurable—in portfolios, board seats, and captured states.
They don’t operate in the market. They rule over it.
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Today, it’s BlackRock, Vanguard, JPMorgan, and a network of financial institutions that encircle the globe.
This class does not participate in capitalism—it directs it.
They control credit, shape policy, staff governments, and decide which sectors live or die.
Their power is not theoretical. It’s measurable—in portfolios, board seats, and captured states.
They don’t operate in the market. They rule over it.
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Banks are transformed from modest middlemen into the command centers of global capital.
They don’t just process transactions. They decide who can own, who must liquidate, who gets sanctioned, and who gets crushed.
Credit is no longer economic—it’s geopolitical.
A rate hike can destroy a country. A credit downgrade can collapse a government. Capital flows replace missiles. Debt replaces occupation.
Finance is the new artillery: silent, mobile, and total.
Remember 2008? They weaponized credit, seized public money, and foreclosed on millions—all without firing a shot.
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They don’t just process transactions. They decide who can own, who must liquidate, who gets sanctioned, and who gets crushed.
Credit is no longer economic—it’s geopolitical.
A rate hike can destroy a country. A credit downgrade can collapse a government. Capital flows replace missiles. Debt replaces occupation.
Finance is the new artillery: silent, mobile, and total.
Remember 2008? They weaponized credit, seized public money, and foreclosed on millions—all without firing a shot.
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Stock markets simulate mass ownership, but actual control is tightly concentrated.
“Democratized investment” is a slogan masking feudal realities: the decisive vote belongs to those who hold controlling decisive blocks of shares, not individual stockholders.
The result is a corporate absolutism where power is exercised without responsibility.
A hundred million shareholders hold scraps; a dozen firms hold sovereignty.
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“Democratized investment” is a slogan masking feudal realities: the decisive vote belongs to those who hold controlling decisive blocks of shares, not individual stockholders.
The result is a corporate absolutism where power is exercised without responsibility.
A hundred million shareholders hold scraps; a dozen firms hold sovereignty.
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Public spending is a transfer mechanism—from workers to capital.
Budgets are redirected toward monopoly guarantees—military contracts, bailouts, corporate subsidies, infrastructure serving capital flows, not human needs.
"It is little wonder that Lenin called state-monopoly capitalism 'legalized embezzlement of public funds'."
This is not mismanagement—it’s asset extraction in formal legal code.
The government becomes an investment firm whose only clients are capitalists.
The rest are overhead.
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Budgets are redirected toward monopoly guarantees—military contracts, bailouts, corporate subsidies, infrastructure serving capital flows, not human needs.
"It is little wonder that Lenin called state-monopoly capitalism 'legalized embezzlement of public funds'."
This is not mismanagement—it’s asset extraction in formal legal code.
The government becomes an investment firm whose only clients are capitalists.
The rest are overhead.
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"Crises are inevitable under capitalism… the anti-crisis measures are used for the enrichment of monopolies."
Each one liquidates small competitors, disciplines labor, consolidates monopolies, and offloads private debt onto the state.
Remember in 2020 when under cover of Covid, the U.S. transferred over $4 trillion to banks and corporations?
May have been the largest upward wealth transfer in history.
Small businesses collapsed. Workers got scraps. Rents rose. Debt increased. Capital bought everything—cheap.
This was not a rescue, but planned redistribution—upward.
The result: monopolies stronger, labor weaker, state fully captured.
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Each one liquidates small competitors, disciplines labor, consolidates monopolies, and offloads private debt onto the state.
Remember in 2020 when under cover of Covid, the U.S. transferred over $4 trillion to banks and corporations?
May have been the largest upward wealth transfer in history.
Small businesses collapsed. Workers got scraps. Rents rose. Debt increased. Capital bought everything—cheap.
This was not a rescue, but planned redistribution—upward.
The result: monopolies stronger, labor weaker, state fully captured.
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The state merges with capital not through conspiracy, but through necessity.
The fusion is material: governments depend on capital for credit, for data, for industrial logistics, and for legitimacy.
They become executive agents, not sovereign bodies.
You do not elect rulers. You elect managers who carry out mandates written by in capital's language.
Every administration is a continuity of capital, not a break from it.
Remember when Citigroup chose Obama's cabinet in 2008?
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The fusion is material: governments depend on capital for credit, for data, for industrial logistics, and for legitimacy.
They become executive agents, not sovereign bodies.
You do not elect rulers. You elect managers who carry out mandates written by in capital's language.
Every administration is a continuity of capital, not a break from it.
Remember when Citigroup chose Obama's cabinet in 2008?
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Government remains only to protect the process of capital accumulation.
Education, health, infrastructure, security—all are treated as budget liabilities unless they can be converted into revenue streams or financial instruments.
The purpose of state power is not to uplift, but to stabilize the environment for capital flows.
State budgets are managed like corporate ledgers: the population is a cost center, monopolies are the profit center. The treasury is a funnel.
If public welfare interferes with profits, it is dismantled.
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Education, health, infrastructure, security—all are treated as budget liabilities unless they can be converted into revenue streams or financial instruments.
The purpose of state power is not to uplift, but to stabilize the environment for capital flows.
State budgets are managed like corporate ledgers: the population is a cost center, monopolies are the profit center. The treasury is a funnel.
If public welfare interferes with profits, it is dismantled.
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Cosmopolitanism is deployed as an ideological weapon of the ruling financial elite to disarm resistance.
It is a systematic erasure of rooted identity — national, cultural, and class.
Cosmopolitanism “preaches renunciation of national traditions, disparagement of national individuality, and rejection of national pride”
By abstracting individuals from history and land, it turns them into mobile, substitutable units.
National pride becomes "xenophobia."
Class solidarity becomes "backwardness."
Resistance becomes "intolerance."
Its goal is to hollow out solidarity and replace it with atomized consumerism and moral relativism.
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It is a systematic erasure of rooted identity — national, cultural, and class.
Cosmopolitanism “preaches renunciation of national traditions, disparagement of national individuality, and rejection of national pride”
By abstracting individuals from history and land, it turns them into mobile, substitutable units.
National pride becomes "xenophobia."
Class solidarity becomes "backwardness."
Resistance becomes "intolerance."
Its goal is to hollow out solidarity and replace it with atomized consumerism and moral relativism.
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What the Soviets called “cosmopolitanism” we now call globalism—but the mission remains unchanged.
It standardizes laws, dissolves cultures, and rewires nations for capital’s needs.
“Integration” and “development” are slogans. The function is logistical: smooth capital’s movement, suppress resistance.
Borders slow profit. Traditions resist discipline. Sovereignty gets in the way.
Everything must be flattened for extraction.
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It standardizes laws, dissolves cultures, and rewires nations for capital’s needs.
“Integration” and “development” are slogans. The function is logistical: smooth capital’s movement, suppress resistance.
Borders slow profit. Traditions resist discipline. Sovereignty gets in the way.
Everything must be flattened for extraction.
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Finance capital commands through structure—but survives through illusion.
That its violence is order. That its looting is policy. That its rule is history’s endpoint.
But the illusions are failing.
As Putin said: "The Western elites have spent centuries filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But the vampire ball is ending."
And when it ends, it ends fast.
Wake up, or be drained dry.
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That its violence is order. That its looting is policy. That its rule is history’s endpoint.
But the illusions are failing.
As Putin said: "The Western elites have spent centuries filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But the vampire ball is ending."
And when it ends, it ends fast.
Wake up, or be drained dry.
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