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IMPERIALISM IN CRISIS:
THE THIRD WORLD
US imperialism is the greatest destroyer of human life on earth. It is a. whole: an economic, political, and cultural system. It feeds on piracy of
the Third World. It colonizes Black and Third World people within the US .md divides, exploits, rapes and attempts to buy off poor and working people. Because of imperialism people live in shanty-towns in Saigon and Rio De Janeiro. The same system is responsible for the sub-standard cOl}ditions A one quarter of the housing in this country. US imperialism is a parasite on the Third World, and traps us in a culture of waste and death. For the benefit of imperialism we live in a society either at war or producing and ~jreparing for war all the time. Imperialism' has its origin in the necessity for capitalism to expand or face stagnation. Imperialism is therefore the defining characteristic of :nodern capitalism as a whole. Its penetration into the Third World produces :he conditions which give rise to movements for national liberation and 5.ocialism. It is precisely because this expansion is necessary that national :iberation movements are a vital blow to imperialism. Imperialism is on the defensive today. Wherever people reclaim :ontrol over their lives and their nation's wealth, it removes another brick Trom imperialism's foundation.
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