A new capital form created by the fusing of bank capital and industrial capital on the foundation of monopoly, the highest form in the development of capital and which reflects its full-fledged development. Capital is not an abstract, but a concrete thing. In the long history of capitalist development, capital has experienced a series of morphological changes, and each change has made capital develop to a new stage. Before the emergence of industrial capital, there was a period wherein commercial capital was the mainstay, which was called “the period of commercial capitalism”. The end of the 18th century saw the transformation of commercial capital into industrial capital, wherein latter became the mainstay, this period was called as the “period of industrial capitalism”. At the end of the 19th century, industrial capital and the bank capital gradually merged, which transformed capital to financial capital, thus, capitalism entered the stage of financial capitalism. In Capital, Marx profoundly revealed the essence of capital and expounded the law of the emergence, development and extinction of capitalist mode of production…
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