centralization, n.Definitions

Centralization (n.) cleared ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠away the nuisance of hundreds of independent village committees, and with them the village's passionate interest in the war.

Centralization (n.) by ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the counterrevolution prepares the mechanism of the revolution: it even gathered France's gold into the Paris Bank and so created the revolution's ready war chest.

Centralization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a centripetal force that would bring the rapid breakdown of capitalist production if counter-tendencies toward decentralization were not constantly at work.

Centralization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠accelerated by the falling profit rate, which dispossesses the smaller capitalists and expropriates the last direct producers who still have something left to expropriate.