: It is true that monopoly is a striking tendency of modern capitalism
: But I think that an opposite anti-monopoly tendency is present in this system too:
: Appearing of small bussinesses specially in new enterprises.
: I think cilicon vally is a good example of appearing
: new companies with small amounts of capital every day.
Sorry, you're either taking historical materialism too mechanistically or capitalist propaganda too seriously.
Rosa Luxenburg:
According to Marxist theory, small companies play the role of pioneers of technical revolution in the general course of capitalist development.(1)
For example, big capital leaves start-ups alone to innovate. Only when the start-ups develop something worthwhile for big capital, then big capital buys them out (friendly or hostile merger). In this way, big capital saves investment costs on R&D (the start-ups that fail to innovate are left to perish) while only buying what has been PROVEN to be of use to capital.
Capital has ALWAYS done this. It's very cost-effective.
All this said, the RELATIVE centralization of capital continues unabated, unmatched since the 1920s.
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Note:
1. Luxenburg, 'Social Reform or Revolution?,' Selected Political Writings, Monthly REview Press 1971, p. 70.
