The enemies of the world’s people will not perish by themselves. Thus, today with the decline and collapse of the old colonialist and imperialist powers, U.S. imperialism and Soviet social-imperialism have arisen as the bulwark for modern reaction and for counter-revolution.
U.S. imperialism, taking advantage of the two world wars which did not reach its shores, became the chief capitalist overlord in the modern world. It seized control of the economies of many countries, engaged in vicious exploitation of it own working class and in bloody supression of the national liberation movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America.The world today however is no longer what it was fifty or a hundred years ago, and since World War Two, the U.S. imperialists have not won a single victory. Its military forces have been put into a passive position, and in Viet Nam they have suffered a major defeat, unparalleled in their 200 years existence.
Today, U.S. imperialism is in decline and in deep economic crisis. It is facing severe competition from the revived economic power of those monopoly capitalist classes it suppressed during World War Two, in Japan and Western Europe, and it has over-extended itself across the whole globe. It has 2,000 military bases in close to 40 countries in which it has stationed hundreds of thousands of troops, a large percentage of its military might. It is today facing increased competition from Soviet social-imperialism.
All these factors have contributed to its present severe economic crisis. At home, prices are rising, the unemployment of the working class is increasing, and the U.S. monopoly capitalist class is attempting to place the burden of this crisis onto the nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Western Europe and Canada, and onto the American proletariat. More and more revolutionary mass movements are developing among the American people against the fascist and decadent rule of this moribund class.
From August 1969, till November 1970, U.S. industrial production declined by over 7%. From December 1970 till June 1971 it remained stagnant. By October 1971, the U.S. economy was operating at 75% capacity and the government’s financial deficits were rising astronomically. In 1971, for the first time since 1893, the period when it embarked on the path as a full fledged international imperialist power, the U.S. had a deficit in its foreign trade. Its desperate attempts to safeguard its economic interests abroad have led to war and aggression, interference, subversion and sabotage. This has created the conditions for its elimination.
In its desperate attempt to avoid extinction and guarantee for itself definite spheres of influence, U.S. imperialism is colluding as well as contending with Soviet social-imperialism. Revolutions do not develop in a straight line, and many times serious setbacks occur. In the mid-1950’s the Soviet Union underwent qualitative social change. The Khrushchov-Brezhnev clique seized power in a coup-d’etat, betrayed the principles of Lenin and Stalin and set about restoring capitalism. The Soviet Union today is a state monopoly capitalist system where, robbing the labouring people of all the fruits of their socialist construction, the new bourgeoisie, the Soviet ruling class, has stepped into the shoes of the old tsars and has taken up anew the building of the “Slavic Empire”.
Severe economic contradictions immediately appeared, and faced with mounting problems at home, the privileged ruling class embarked on the road of imperialism. The Soviet Union became a social-imperialist state. Its armies smashed into Czechoslovakia. It aided and abetted the Indian reactionaries’ dismemberment of Pakistan. and it has sent hundreds of thousands of troops along the frontiers with the People’s Republic of China where it has carried out military provocations against the Chinese fishermen, workers, peasants and soldiers. It still sanctions its occupation of large sections of China stolen by the old tsars.
Internally it has re-established capitalist exploitation and has opened up the whole country to the monopoly capitalists of Japan, Italy, Germany and the United States. This will accelerate the internal class contradictions and further prepare the conditions for a new proletarian revolution and the re-establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Using the fraud of “supporting the national liberation movements”, the Soviet social-imperialists are carrying out neo-colonial aggression and are increasing their plunder of various countries. They have invested over 6 billion rubles abroad to plunder the natural resources and use the working people of Asia and Africa as cheap labour in their economic designs. Of over 600 projects undertaken by the Soviet Union in 34 countries, only 10% are industries to transform natural resources. The rest are in natural resources extraction, construction, petroleum and other fields.
To protect its interest and spread its area of control, Soviet naval vessels ply the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Soviet Union is seeking strategic areas in which to establish military bases in Asia and Africa and it already has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed abroad in Eastern Europe and Mongolia. Its “military aid” to various countries is to establish control over a country’s natural resources and labour power.
Both U.S. imperialism and Soviet social-imperialism have their military alliances, their strings of puppets, their espionage and sabotage services. They undermine and interfere in the affairs of those countries who oppose them and have pitted themselves against all those people fighting for independence, liberation, revolution and socialism. The anti-colonial, anti-imperialist revolution of the world’s people is aimed against these two superpowers. To protect their interests, the basic strategic policies of the superpowers are: 1) To encircle and suppress the People’s Republic of China, 2) To suppress the national liberation movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America so they can exploit without hindrance, 3) To dominate all the capitalist countries, East and West, and 4) To contend for supremacy against each other and to collude together because neither is strong enough to gain the supremacy at this time.