V. I. Lenin
Collected Works
Moscow: Progress Publishers,  1963-1970, Vol. 23 of 45, p. 115

"Imperialism and the Split in Socialism"

"...monopoly yields superprofits, i.e., a surplus of profits over and
above the capitalist profits that are normal and customary all over
the world. The capitalists can devote a part (and not a small one,
at that!) of these superprofits to bribe their own workers, to create
something like an alliance...between the workers of the given nation
and their capitalists against the other countries....

...Superprofits have not disappeared; they still remain. The exploitation
of all other countries by one privileged, financially wealthy country
remains and has become more intense....

The bourgeoisie of an imperialist 'Great' Power can economically bribe
the upper strata of 'its' workers by spending on this (strata--Ed.) a
hundred million or so francs a year, for its superprofits most likely
amount to about a thousand million."

[MC5 comments: Credit to Dennis McKinsey for bringing this quote and
many others to MIM's attention.]