The volume of global financial transactions has grown faster than the global GDP since 1990. Imperialism leads to ever deeper crises. The financial, banking, and Euro-crisis is a crisis of state monopoly capitalism. Lower wages and deeper social cuts have been the base for higher accumulation in the FRG. German imperialism as the main power within the EU uses the EU and the Euro-crisis as a vehicle to become a world power again.
Christa Luft, "Over Accumulation as the Main Source of Capitalist Crisis," World Review of Political Economy 2 (2010): 239.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, March 13, 2011, 46.
Köln, 2008
Financial Times Deutschland (FTD ), August 2, 2011/Bloomberg
FTD, October 27, 2011, 15
Rudolf Hilferding, Das Finanzkapital (2nd edition) (Berlin, 1955) (1st edition 1910), Lenin in his work "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism," Lenin, Works, Vol. 22 (especially chapters 2 and 3).
Beate Landefeld, http://belafix.wordpress.com, BLBlogB2T (accessed February 12, 2012).
"Das System Leuna" by Kleine-Brockhoff und Schirra, journalists of the German weekly paper Die Zeit. In her book Im Auge des Zyklons (1st German edition 2003; French edition 2003: Est-ce dans ce monde-là que nous voulons vivre),
J. V. Stalin, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1972).
Die Welt, July 20, 1998, titled "The High-tech-location Dresden is Booming": in Dresden investment eligible for grants in business, industry, and trade from October 1990 to November 1997 reached a volume of DM 5.53 billion.
Gerhard Feldbauer in JW from November 22, 2011.
Guardian (a UK newspaper) online (http://www.guardian.co.uk), October 23, 2011
Allianz-CFO Achleitner in the daily paper Handelsblatt as far back as May 24, 2011, and was then mentioned again and again.
Klaus Wagner, "Die dritte große Krise," Unsere Zeit, two parts, October 7/14, 2011.
Interview by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 21, 2011, 5.
Lenin, Works, Vol. 22, German edition, 257
EADS and BAE, documented, detailed, and ongoing by Information Agency Militarization (IMI), Tübingen, http://www.imi-online.de/
Kommunistische Arbeiterzeitung 333, Kurt Gossweiler: "Bündnispolitik gegen den Faschismus, and Renate Münder: Die entsicherte Demokratie."