跨国公司的加强是资本主义生产集中和国际化的直接结果。在当代条件下,跨国公司是最典型的资本主义大经营企业。正是在它们当中现在不断再生产出帝国主义的基本特征,并不断补充具体内容,出现种种新的表现形式。在这里帝国主义基本特征的变异性和继承性交织在一起。生产集中与垄断现在的跨国公司和跨国银行与其在本世纪初的原型相比,首先在经营资本的规模、国际化程度以及空前扩大了的经营业务的多样性方面有很大差别。如果说本世纪初十亿规模的公司(甚至按周转额而不是按资本计算)只有有数的几个,那么八十年代初参加“跨国公司俱 The strengthening of transnational corporations is a direct result of the concentration and internationalization of capitalist production. Under the current conditions, multinational corporations are the most typical large capitalist enterprises. It is precisely among them that the basic characteristics of imperialism are constantly reproduced now, and are continuously replenished with concrete content and new forms of manifestations emerge. Here the variability and inheritance of the basic characteristics of imperialism are intertwined. Concentration and Monopoly of Production Multinational corporations and multinational banks now differ from their prototypes at the beginning of this century in the first place in terms of the size of their operating capital, their degree of internationalization, and the diversity of their expanded operations. If there were only a handful of billions of companies in the early part of this century (even on a turnover basis rather than a capital basis), then in the early 1980s they would attend ”multinational corporations