O desenvolvimento do imperialismo e o processo de concentração bancária na dinâmica mundial do capitalismo contemporâneo

Abstract

A series of acquisitions and fusions involving banking companies in different countries has taken place in the last years in the financial sector. Banking institutions, which have provided an extent diversification of both financial markets and its instruments, have most of the accountability in stimulating such phenomenon. All of it characterizes an acute phase of the concentration cycle of that sector. Since a Marxist theoretical reference, this work investigates the characteristics of the world-wide economy in the contemporanity, searching, recoup diverse contributions made by authors who have Marxist theory as reference, for help in the development of this important shade of interpretation of the reality, and, from this theoretical recovery, help to understand the contemporanity of the capitalist system, and especially to identify and analyse some interpretations about the banking concentration process. In such a way, this work opposes the dominant thesis wich affirms that the present time would be a new stage in the capitalism, expressed through the negation of the imperialism stage. The objective of this paper is to offer a Marxist explanation of the banking concentration process, which is characterized as a symptom of the monopolistic concentration tendency in the imperialism period.