Movistar+ Movistar+ Movistar+ is the trade name of the subscription platform for digital television owned by Telefónica, which operates in Spain and is distributed via satellites such as Astra and Hispasat as well as with ADSL and optical fiber. The platform, which was officially launched on July 8, 2015, stems from the merger of Canal+ and Movistar TV. It is the largest subscription television provider in Spain with 3.8 million customers and 71% of market share. In 2013, even though they had previously happened during 2008, some negotiations about Canal+ sale appeared again. These ones would be more real because of
State monopoly capitalism State monopoly capitalism The theory of state monopoly capitalism (also referred as stamocap) was initially a Marxist doctrine popularised after World War II. Lenin had claimed in 1916 that World War I had transformed laissez-faire capitalism into "monopoly capitalism", but he did not publish any extensive theory about the topic. The term refers to an environment where the state intervenes in the economy to protect larger monopolistic or oligopolistic businesses from threats. As conceived by Lenin in his pamphlet of the same name the theory aims to describe the "final historical stage" of capitalism, of which he believed the Imperialism