Non-monopoly Sector, the part of the economies of imperialist countries where non-monopoly capital retains its positions, where there are specific relations of production engendered by a combination of the vestiges of free competition, on the one hand, and the influence of the monopolies, finance capital and state-monopoly capitalism, on the other. The non- monopoly sector has two clearly demarcated parts: (1) the petty-commodity economy, and (2) the commodity-capitalist economy. The former includes numerous small enterprises based on private ownership of the means of production and the labour of the owner and the members of his family working for the market. These are small-scale farmers, peasants, and artisans, whose incomes are spent virtually in their entirety on personal consumption. This stratum is characterised by a complete lack of wage labour, by very limited numbers of hired workers, when the head of the family lives thanks to his own work, scanty accumulations, practically excluding expanded reproduction, and by brutal exploitation on the part of monopoly capital. Despite the sharp decrease in its role in the economy, this socioeconomic type of economy is preserved quite extensively in many imperialist countries, mainly because monopoly capital fears an explosion of social conflicts if this mass of commodity producers are completely ruined and a loss of its sources of monopoly profit. The commodity- capitalist economy includes small and mediumsized capitalist firms using wage labour and belonging to individual owners, the capital-property of which has not yet separated from the capital-function. These enterprises have a low organic composition of capital and a backward technical basis. Literally hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized firms cannot stand up to competition and are, therefore, ruined, but their ability to regenerate is also quite high. "...Small-scale production engenders capitalism and the bourgeoisie continuously, daily, hourly, spontaneously, 255 and on a mass scale" (V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol.31, p. 24). Monopoly capital dominates these strata of commodity producers via the system of monopolyhigh and monopoly-low prices, subcontracting and other agreements, and through the entire state-monopoly mechanism.