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...editors of this Dump Truck hope to establish two points: that a radical tactical program cannot be divorced from an understanding of imperialism, and that only a discussion of imperialism in the broadest possible context with the strictest attention paid to different movements and to factions within the international capitalist class can lead to such understanding...
...Open Door notes symbolized the non-inverventionest impulse of modern U.S. foreign policy--the establishment of relations among the major industrial powers of insure, under American leadership, the maximum guarantee of future investment opportunities in underdeveloped areas at the least possible cost to the capitalist powers...
American domination of South Vietnam, which continues now, is the outgrowth of these conditions. Major U.S. multinational investor-- particularly those associated with the Rockefeller-Chase Manhattan-Standard Oil circle-- have taken over or dominate regional trade associations, supra-national companies or allegedly neutral international development agencies which promote capitalist investment by resolving intra-capitalist conflicts, preparing feasability studies, and urging local ruling classes to provide incentives for investment...
Lenin traced this classic imperialism to a growing concentration of economic power within the capitalist countries. Giant capitalist monopolies, coordinated by banks, sought more profitable trade and investment opportunities overseas as well as sources for raw materials. Powerful capitalists forced their governments to secure foreign territories, ward off opposition from both Third World peoples and the other imperialist powers, and increase the pace of investment and exploitation. Lenin predicted that the continuing struggle for colonies would lead to the outbreak of world...
Lenin's analysis of imperialism was cogent and accurate in many respects, but it was flawed in one critical way. Lenin saw that imperialism benefited only the capitalist class, and he assumed, following Marx, that the working class of European countries would recognize their bonds with each other and with the Third World. Thus they would prevent the outbreak of the coming war. Events initially seemed to bear him out: as the tempo of international crisis in the early years of the century became more brisk, the Second International of European socialist parties proudly and defiantly passed resolutions calling upon...