The gigantic proportions of financial capital, concentrated in a few hands, which gave rise to an extraordinarily vast and dense network of relationships and bonds, and which subordinated to its power not only the masses of capitalists and small and medium entrepreneurs, but also the most insignificant. , on the one hand, and the exacerbation, on the other, of the struggle against other national-state financial groups for world sharing and domination over other countries, all lead to the end masses of all the possessing classes to the imperialism. The sign of our time is the "general" enthusiasm for the prospects of imperialism, its furious defense, its beautification by all means. Imperialist ideology penetrates even within the working class, which is not separated from the other classes by a wall of China. If the leaders of what they now call the "Social Democratic" Party of Germany were rightly described as "social-imperialists," that is, word socialists and the factor imperialists, Hobson already pointed out in 1902 the existence of "Fabian Imperialists." in England, belonging to the opportunistic "Fabian Society".
Bourgeois scientists and publicists generally defend imperialism in a somewhat covert way, concealing the absolute domination of imperialism and its deep roots, seeking to bring to the fore particulars and minor details, striving to divert attention from the essentials. through completely serious "reform" projects such as police control of trusts or banks, etc. Less frequent are the manifestations of the declared cynical imperialists who have the merit of recognizing the absurdity of the idea of reforming the fundamental characteristics of imperialism.