横向经济联合会不会导致垄断?产生垄断的后果又会怎样?这是人们所关注的问题。本文拟就此谈点看法。我们认为,横向经济联合会产生垄断。过去,人们认为垄断是资本主义社会唯一的特有的经济现象,这是片面的观点。诚然,垄断是资本主义生产关系发展的产物,是帝国主义的经济实质和根本特征。但是,资本主义从自由竞争发展到垄断,根本原因在于科学技术革命推动大工业蓬勃发展,商品生产和商品交换规模扩大,造成生产和资本高度集中。就是说,垄断产生的真正根源是社会化大生产和商品经济的发展。如果没有这个经济条件,垄断便无从产生。再从垄断的本质来看,垄断就是独占,是竞争的对立物。资本主义垄断是在生产资料私有制条件下,少数资本主义大企业或经济组织为攫取高额利润而独占某种商品的生产和销售;社会主义垄 Will the horizontal economic association lead to monopolies and what will happen to the consequences of monopoly? This is a matter of concern. This article is intended to talk about this view. We think that the horizontal economic federation has a monopoly. In the past, people regarded monopoly as the only unique economic phenomenon in capitalist society. This is a one-sided view. It is true that monopoly is the product of the development of the relations of capitalist production and the economic essence and the fundamental characteristic of imperialism. However, the fundamental reason for the development of capitalism from free competition to monopoly lies in the fact that the revolution in science and technology has promoted the vigorous development of large industries, the expansion of the production of commodities and the exchange of commodities, resulting in a high concentration of production and capital. In other words, the real source of monopoly is the development of socialized mass production and commodity economy. Without this economic condition, the monopoly will not produce. Again from the monopoly’s point of view, monopoly is monopoly, is the opposite of competition. Capitalist monopoly is the monopoly of production of goods under the conditions of private ownership of the means of production, and the monopoly of a few large capitalist enterprises or economic organizations in order to seize high profits. The socialist ridges