Meanings
plural superprofits
- excess profit
Our next step will be to understand how the basic economic law of capitalism works under imperialism, and how monopoly superprofits are extracted from imperialism's "third world" periphery.
1978, Clarence J. Munford, Production Relations, Class and Black Liberation, page 1421 more example
Obviously, out of such enormous superprofits (since they are obtained over and above the profits which capitalists squeeze out of the workers of their 'own' country) it is possible to bribe the labour leaders[…]
1984, Norman Etherington, Theories of imperialism: war, conquest and capital, page 138
Origin
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