杭州读者姜乃(?)来信问:“托拉斯”和“康采恩”是什么意思?是怎样发展起来的?现简答如下。“托拉斯”、“康采恩”,还有“卡特尔”和“辛迪加”,都是资本主义国家中的垄断组织的几种主要形式。垄断组织是在自由资本主义向垄断资本主义的发展过程中出现的.资本家为了追逐更多的利润,彼此间展开激烈的竞争。在这一过程中,失败者被排挤、吞并,生产和资本日益集中到为数有限的大公司大企业手中。这些大公司大企业把最重要的经济部门的大部分生产 What is the meaning of “Trust” and “Conszon”? What is the meaning of “Trust” by Hangzhou readers? “Trust,” “Conszon,” and “cartels,” and “syndicates,” are all major forms of monopolies in capitalist countries. Monopoly organizations emerged from the development of monopoly capitalism by free capitalism, which fought fierce competition with each other in pursuit of more profits. In the process, the losers were marginalized, annexed, and production and capital increasingly concentrated in the hands of a limited number of large corporations. Most of the big companies put the bulk of their production in the most important sectors of the economy