Title: Contradictions in capitalism
Headings: Contradictions in capitalism
Contradictions in capitalism
Bosses expropriate what the workers produce
Anarchy built into capitalist production
Capitalism breeds monopolization
Irrational system creating its gravediggers

Content: Their only goals are profit and survival. The competition that did away with the feudal mode of production has turned into competition between capitalists. It ever intensifies, and the weaker ones are always under threat of ruin. This, however, is not the kind of ruin that the workers face. A capitalist enterprise might be absorbed by a stronger enterprise or have to close shop and have its capital employed somewhere else. In any case, the ruin of any capitalist is not worth the shedding of any worker's tears. The system itself is unstable. These competing capitalists are driven by an underlying law of capitalism — expand or die. At a time of protracted stagnation the stronger capitalists absorb the weaker ones. The suffering of the workers intensifies.