ABSTRACT
The best-known and most important bourgeois revolution is undoubtedly the French Revolution. This revolution was not intended to bring about small improvements in the society as compared with the feudal order. The revolution had to achieve nothing less than the emancipation of the human race. The continuous growth of productivity and the pressures of working class political and professional organizations have gradually led to important improvements, and so today, in the most advanced countries, the horrors of the early accumulation of capital belong more or less to the past. A new phenomenon has appeared recently: business planning on a worldwide scale by gigantic corporations. Although the export of capital started at an early stage, only after the last world war did world trade come to be dominated by a small number of giant multinational corporations. Capital concentration and centralization both provoked and enabled labor centralization.
