Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 1912-16


EUG. PHILIPPOVICH, “MONOPOLIES”

Eug. v. Philippovich, “M o n o p o l i e s[1]....

 In the United States (1912)—180
owners or presidents of firms (18 banks)
held 746 directorships in 134 corpora-
tions with a total capital of 25,325 million
dollars (=101,300 million marks). “This
could be a third of the American national
wealth” (p. 159).
180 persons
(families?)
25.000
million

dollars

A.E.G. (Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft). Capital (1912) = 378 million marks. Its Supervisory Board has 32 members, who hold nearly 500 directorships in various enterprises.


Notes

[1] E. Philippovich’s article “Monopolies and Monopoly Policy” was published in Karl Grünberg’s Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung, Vol. VI, 1916, pp. 157-74.


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