Chapter 4
WALL STREET AND WORLD REVOLUTION: Wall
St. and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony Sutton
What you Radicals and we who hold opposing views differ about, is not so much
the end as the means, not so much what should be brought about as how it should,
and can, be brought about ....
Otto H. Kahn, director, American
International Corp., and partner, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., speaking to the
League/or Industrial Democracy, New York, December 30, 1924
Before World War I, the financial and business structure of the United States
was dominated by two conglomerates: Standard Oil, or the Rockefeller
enterprise, and the Morgan complex of industries — finance and transportation
companies. Rockefeller and Morgan trust alliances dominated not only Wall
Street but, through interlocking directorships, almost the entire economic
fabric of the United States.l Rockefeller interests monopolized the
petroleum and allied industries, and controlled the copper trust, the smelters
trust, and the gigantic tobacco trust, in addition to having influence in some
Morgan