Providing broad and deep theoretical insights, Lenin’s financial capital theory is the basis for our comprehending capital history and its current development.His theory stems from Marx’s and Engels’ theories on production concentration and monopoly, Hilferding’s financial capital theory and Bukharin’s World Economy and Imperialism. Lenin’s theory illustrates the origin,characters and historical statue of financial capital.According to the new changes of current capitalism, contemporary financial capital theories shall be amplified and extended on the basis of Lenin’s financial capital theory in following aspects: the further parasitic nature of financial capital,gradual virtualization of financial capital’s essence, the expansion and extension of contemporary financial capital.

Editor: Zhong Yao

Studies On Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Theories.2016.No.8.