with all this talk of stateless elites ..a corrective demarcation

".. if it is impossible. to toy in rude, simple fashion with the dream of a straightforward retreat from imperialism to “peaceful” capitalism, why not let these dreams, take the form of innocent speculation on “peaceful” “ultra-imperialism”? "

" Why not try to escape the acute problems that have been and are being posed by the present  epoch of imperialism  by dreaming up the possibility of it soon passing away and being followed by a relatively “peaceful” epoch of “ultra-imperialism” that will not require any “abrupt” tactics? "

" There is no doubt that the trend of development is towards a single world trust absorbing all enterprises without exception and all states without exception"

But

" this development proceeds in such circumstances, at such a pace, through such contradictions, conflicts and upheavals—not only economic but political, national, etc.—
that inevitably imperialism will burst and capitalism will be transformed into its opposite
 long before one world trust materialises,
 before the “ultra-imperialist”, world-wide amalgamation of national finance capitals takes place. "

V. Ilyin

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