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THE THEORETICAL LINE

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

If there is any one point on which all sectors of "the Movement" agree, it is that "American imperialism" is the No. 1 enemy of mankind. The theme is repeated over and over and over again in their pronouncements and propaganda.

[From speech by Gus Hall, at the World Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties, Moscow, June 5-17, 1969]

As the draft document correctly states, U.S. imperialism remains the most aggressive, war-like force in the world. It continues its bloody aggression against the people of Vietnam. It continues its policies of aggression against the people of socialist Cuba. It is the main force of military, political and economic aggression in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

It remains the base of operation for the forces of imperialism everywhere in their futile attempts to halt the world revolutionary processes. It is the greatest danger to world peace. It poses a nuclear Damocles' sword, and is held in check only by the forces of this new epoch and especially by the powerful military and nuclear shield of the Soviet Union.

U.S. imperialism is in an ever deeper crisis, and it can be defeated, but to underestimate the aggressiveness and the danger that it presents would be the height of folly. Creating the illusion that it presents no danger of war is imperialism's own trump-card in preparation for war. Only this week, Nixon announced the fake withdrawal of 25,000 U.S. troops in order to create the illusion of disengagement, while it resumed the bombing of the territory of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

[From the World Marxist Review, January 1970]

IMPERIALIST AMERICA TODAY

Dialectically, U.S. imperialism is a concentrated expression not only of the power, but also of imperialism's historical doom. In the United States the contradictions of modern imperialism, revealed by V. I. Lenin more than half a century ago, are at their sharpest.

Lenin's description of the United States is more than ever substantiated by the realities of the present day: "America has taken first place in level of development of the productive forces of collective human endeavor, in the utilization of machinery and of all the

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wonders of modern engineering. At the same time, America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multi-millionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constanty live on the verge of pauperism."

To carry into effect imperialism's congenital urge for world supremacy, U.S. monopoly capital has built up a colossal war machine, established a system of military blocs, pressed the century's greatest scientific discoveries into military service, inflicted a criminal war on the people of Vietnam and assumed the functions of world gendarmes. Comrade Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA, describes U.S. imperialism as an ugly beast that has stepped up brutality and, openly resorting to genocide, is in cold blood destroying Vietnam towns and villages with the men, women, and children in

them.

SPEECH OF GENERAL SECRETARY LEONID BREZHNEV

[Before the opening session of 24th Congress of CPSU, March 30, 1971]

The foreign policy of imperialism in the past 5-year period is yet another proof of the immutability of its reactionary aggressive nature. In this connection it is necessary to speak first of all about American imperialism, which in recent years has once again confirmed its endeavor to play the role of a distinctive guarantor and protector of the international system of exploitation and oppression. It strives to rule everywhere, to interfere in the affairs of other peoples; it unceremoniously violates their lawful rights and sovereignty; by force, bribes, and economic penetration it attempts to impose its will on states and whole areas of the world. The forces of war and aggression also exist, of course, in other imperialist countries. In West Germany it is the revanchists who are ever more closing their ranks with those of the neoNazis; in Britain it is the oppressors of Northern Ireland, the suppliers of arms to the racists of South Africa, the apologists for U.S. aggressive policy; in Japan it is the militarists who, contrary to the constitution which bans war for all time, are striving to push this country onto the road of expansion and aggression.

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The imperialists are systematically robbing the peoples of dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Each year they pump out billions of dollars from the so-called third world. At the same time, according to data published by the United Nations in its 1970 report on the world food situation, 375 million people of these continents live on the verge of death by hunger.

There is no crime that imperialists would not commit to try to preserve or reestablish their domination over the peoples of their former colonies or other countries striving to break free from the grip of capitalist exploitation. The past 5 years have produced much new evidence to this effect: The aggression against Arab states, the attempts of colonialists to invade Guinea, the subversive activities against the progressive regimes in Latin America-all this again and again reminds us that the war of imperialism against the freedom-loving peoples has not ceased.

And the main crime of the modern colonialists, the crime that shames America, is the continuing aggression of the United States against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. In recent years American imperialism has committed military crimes which have literally shaken world public opinion. Tragic notoriety was given to the Vietnamese village of Song My, whose peaceful and defenseless inhabitants, including women, old men, and children, were sadistically annihilated by American punitive squads.

[From Peking NCNA International Service in English, 20 June 1971]

U.S. IMPERIALISM 'DEADLY ENEMY' OF AFRICAN PEOPLE

PEKING, June 20, (HSINHUA correspondent)-Of late, U.S. imperialism instigated its running dogs to obstruct in a thousand and one ways the convocation of the 8th conference of the heads of African states in a vain attempt to disrupt the militant solidarity of the African countries and people and arrest the historical march of the African people in defending their independence and state sovereignty and striving for national liberation.

Last April, the United States and some other imperialist countries, under the smokescreen of a "search for racial and political justice in southern Africa", dished up the proposal about so-called "dialogues" with the racist South African regime. U.S. imperialism is using this proposal as a means [of] demoralizing the African people in their struggle against racial discrimination as practised by South Africa and sowing discord among the African countries and people in an attempt to jeopardize African unity and sabotage the African summit conference.

Alongside its attempts to divide Africa, U.S. imperialism sends its running dogs to Africa to sow discord and estrangement. Instigated by U.S. imperialism, Israeli "foreign minister" Eban recently went to the Congo Kinshasia and five other African countries for conspiratorial activities. During his visit, he blabbed: "The Middle East conflict was not an African problem" and "African countries should not involve themselves in the conflict." He said provokingly that he did not see any reason why Middle East countries should seek African support. Eban's intention was clear, that is, to undermine the militant friendship and flesh-and-blood ties between the African and Arab peoples in their struggle against U.S.-Israeli aggression.

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It is noteworthy that U.S. imperialism recently called a ministerial council meeting of the NATO bloc in Lisbon. In so doing, it tried to boost the morale of the Portuguese colonialists, encouraging them to go on with their criminal colonial war in Africa, and at the same time bring pressure to bear upon the forthcoming African summit

conference.

[NHAN DAN, Hanol, July 20, 1971]

"U.S. imperialists . . . are the international gendarme, the most dangerous, most savage and most cruel enemy of mankind. They represent the most reactionary, rotten and moribund forces of the disintegrating old world."

ANTI-COMMUNISM

The Communist movement launched an all-out war on anti-communism at the Conference of Communist Parties held in Moscow in December 1960. The purpose of this campaign was to so discredit the term "anti-communism" that anyone who referred to himself as an anti-Communist would be regarded as some kind of extremist or "kook." The Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security took testimony on this subject at an early stage. (See Testimony of Edward Hunter, "The New Drive Against the Anti-Communist Program," July 1961.

Since it was first launched, the attack on anti-communism has grown enormously in scope and intensity. In January 1970, for example, in conjunction with Lenin's Anniversary, an international theoretical conference was held in Moscow on the theme "Leninism's Increasing Role in the World Today and Critique of Anti-Communism." (See page 35).

[From the New York Times, Dec. 7, 1960, p. C 16]

FROM TEXT OF STATEMENT BY LEADERS OF 81 COMMUNIST PARTIES

AFTER MEETING IN MOSCOW

The aims of the Communists accord with the supreme interests of the nation. The reactionaries' effort to break up the national front under the slogan of "anti-communism" and isolate the Communists, the foremost contingent of the liberation movement, weakens the national movement. It is contrary to the national interests of the people and is fraught with the loss of national gains. ***

In our time, when communism is not only the most advanced doctrine but an actually existing social system which has proved its superiority over capitalism, conditions are particularly favorable for expanding the influence of the Communist parties, vigorously exposing anti-communism, a slogan under which the capitalist class wages its struggle against the proletariat, and winning the broadest sections of the working masses for Communist ideas.

Anti-communism arose at the dawn of the working-class movement as the principal ideological weapon of the capitalist class in its struggle against the proletariat and Marxist ideology. As the class struggle grew in intensity, particularly with the formation of the world Socialist system anti-communism became more vicious and refined.

Anti-communism, which is indicative of a deep ideological crisis in, and extreme decline of, bourgeois ideology, resorts to monstrous distor

tions of Marxist doctrine and crude slander against the Socialist social system, presents Communist policies and objectives in a false light and carries on a witchhunt against the democratic peaceful forces and organizations.

[From the World Marxist Review, March 1970]

LENINISM AND FIGHT AGAINST ANTI-COMMUNISM

(by V. T.)

An international theoretical conference dedicated to the Lenin centenary was held in Moscow on January 19-23, sponsored by the USSR, the Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, GDR, Hungarian and Polish Academies of Sciences. The theme was Leninism's Increasing Role in the World of Today and Critique of Anti-Communism. *

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In our day, bellicose anti-communism has become the essential content of the ideology of the bourgeoisie and its petty-bourgeois lieutenants. However, anti-communism goes far beyond ideology. For besides a definite system of views, it encompasses a whole complex of political, military, economic and other actions by the imperialist bourgeoisie and its allies.

The point was made that present-day anti-communism is the epitome of the century's most rabid reaction, a weapon with which imperialism hopes to contain the world revolutionary movement and keep capitalism afloat. Anti-communism is a screen and cover for an offensive against all the forces of social progress. Marx once remarked that for the bourgeoisie the anti-communist witchhunt was but the prelude to a crusade against all recalcitrants. In our time this has become a salient feature of anti-communism, which can be more clearly seen as a means of suppressing all progressive and democratic movements. In short, anti-communism has become the quintessential expression of imperialism's anti-revolutionary ideology and policy.

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In the imperialist powers anti-communism has been elevated to the rank of official policy. It is the organizing and directing factor in the huge subversive campaign against the socialist countries, against the workers', Communist and national liberation movements. Anti-Communist strategy and tactics are especially dangerous if they are not properly revealed and properly appraised. That is why the battle against anti-communism has, in a way, become the focal point of antiimperialistic policy and action. ***

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To anti-Communist negativism the Communist movement opposes a positive and scientifically grounded program for social progress. Collectively elaborated at last year's International Meeting and clearly formulated in its documents, it provides a blueprint for united action of all opponents of imperialism. ***

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This program, spearheaded against anti-communism, was concretized at the conference in adaptation of the specifics of the fight against

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