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Objective tendency toward socialization of productive forces leads to a new and irreversible phenomenon in contemporary capitalist countries. It consists in internationalization of particular production elements and capital. This phenomenon takes different forms corresponding to consecutive stages of capital circulation (money capital, productive capital, and commodity capital). At all stages a specific role is performed today by multinational companies constituting a monopolistic form of internationalization of the capitalist way of production. They do not lead, however, to a rational international division of labour. They hamper further development of productive forces as well as the internationalization process itself while resources are oftentime wasted.