马克思恩格斯对资本野蛮扩张的批判及其现实意义

Marx and Engels’Criticism of the Brutal Expansion of Capital and Its Practical Significance

早年马克思恩格斯从政治经济学视角对资本主义贸易政策和资本对外扩张现象进行了揭露;19世纪50年代中期,马克思恩格斯对英法等国虚拟资本投机现象,尤其是对弱小民族国家掠夺性进行了揭露;在《资本论》第2~3卷整理编辑中,恩格斯晚年对资本扩张性作了重要补充。马克思恩格斯思想为列宁《帝国主义论》的创立提供了素材和方法论,对理解西方金融资本的本性具有重要的现实意义。

Marx and Engels exposed the capitalist trade policy and the phenomenon of capital external expansion from a political economy perspective in their early years.In the middle of 1850s,Marx and Engels exposed the predatory nature of virtual capital speculation in countries such as Britain and France,particularly in the case of small,vulnerable nations.In the compilation of volume 2~3 of Capital,volume 3,in his later years,Engels made an important addition to capital expansion.Marx and Engels’thought provides material and methodology for the foundation of Lenin’s Imperialism,which is of great practical significance to the understanding of the nature of western financial capital.