"Monopolising the ability to revolutionise production has meant concentrating these monopoly activities inside the imperialist states – things like design, research and development, advanced engineering and so on. But concentrating those types of labour inside the imperialist states also means, increasingly, divesting from all other types of labour."

https://red-spark.org/2026/01/22/chinas-big-threat-to-imperialist-monopoly/