>Well, Lenin wasn't such a simpleton.
No, he wasn't a simpleton, unlike many of today's Leninists. But he wrote Imperialism at a time when it looked like the German model of state-sponsored, bank-run cartels were the wave of the future. They weren't. Why use "monopoly" as a synonym for "big business"? There's a world of difference, which is obscured by the terminology.
Doug