In the context of what's going on today with the finanial bailouts, CDS's, etc., etc....this recently discovered (I've never read any Lenin until recently) Lenin quote I found interesting...
The supremacy of finance capital over all other forms of capital means the predominance of the rentier and of the financial oligarchy; it means that a small number of financially “powerful” states stand out among all the rest. The extent to which this process is going on may be judged from the statistics on emissions, i.e., the issue of all kinds of securities.
Education BUMP!
Like I said, The american left is way out even more than the Bolsheviks were.