Editing Bank

<blockquote>''"Banks" redirects here. For the American Indian Movement member, see [[Dennis Banks]].''</blockquote>'''Banks''' are financial institutions that transform inactive [[money]] [[capital]] into active capital. They begin as tools of the [[bourgeoisie]] but take control of production once they monopolize. Banks controlling production is one of the features of [[imperialism]], the highest stage of [[capitalism]].<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Vladimir Lenin]]|year=1916|title=Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism|chapter=Banks and Their New Role|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch02.htm|city=[[Moscow]]|publisher=Progress Publishers|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm|trans-title=Империализм как высшая стадия капитализм|trans-lang=Russian}}</ref> [[Nationalization]] of banks is one of the first tasks of a [[proletarian revolution]].<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Vladimir Lenin]]|year=1917|title=The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution|chapter=The Situation within the Socialist International|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/tasks/ch10.htm|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/tasks/index.htm}}</ref>