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...United States's "destiny" to implant its system of liberal capitalism in any "underdeveloped" foreign nation was no longer "manifest." But Vietnam still failed to create any popular recognition that America's foreign policy is shaped within parameters set by the economic and political interests of this country's capitalist class. It failed to convey the fact that the Second Indochina War was more than the unfortunate mistake of otherwise good-hearted liberals, and that U.S. capitalists, as partners in international development agencies and multinational corporations, intend to continue their attempt to direct South Vietnam's resources, government, and economy...
Bringing about progressive social change in capitalist America is certainly a difficult task, with institutional and political blocks, but certainly a prerequisite is this: the creation of a democratic majority seeking such changes. The sixties New Left (SDS and allies) saw this, and rejected democracy; campus liberalism despaired of gaining popular support among the masses of "reactionary" Americans. But in fact, the student movement never in any serious way directed itself towards the problems faced by the majority of the American people. Students talked, as we should have, about Vietnam--but we should have realized that it is impossible...
...Monday, October 22, as part of the U.S. campaign, the U.S. Labor Party will hold a demonstration in Boston at which Larry Sherman, USLP candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, will announce the Labor Party's intention to organize to stop capitalist food speculators permanently, and will indict the international bourgeoisie for murder...
...crime inherent in this process lies not just in the current high food prices, not just in the tractors that go unrepaired for lack of money, not just in the baby chicks killed because grain to feed them is too expensive. The criminal incompetence of the international capitalist class to run the world economy is destroying the productive agricultural infrastructure, guaranteeing the bankruptcy of small and medium size farmers, guaranteeing that the factories are unable to invest in new farm machinery and fertilizer production, guaranteeing the lack of research money for the development of new seed, new agricultural methods...
Specifically, the program would cut food costs by 50% immediately by taking the following steps 1) Nationalizing all food distribution, with the government buying food at fixed prices from farmers, eliminating the grain markets. 2) Nationalizing the capitalist farmers. 3) Abolishing existing farm debt, including is a slate in name only, with its members holding different positions on major issues, it is expected to help the conservative voter identify his kind of politicians...