"The Birth Pangs of a New Middle East"

Racism, the ideology that came into full flower as a justification for European conquest of most of the planet, is now headquartered in the United States – with an annex in Israel. Tel Aviv is a very active annex.

There could be no justification for George Bush’s aggressions, without the underlying assumptions of racial superiority. Bush has committed multiple crimes against peace – a capital Nuremburg offense for which a number of Nazis were hanged. He is a war criminal, many times over. However, he will never be prosecuted in the United States, because of the pervasive ideology of imperialism, which is racist at its very core: it dehumanizes the victims.

Race is, indeed, a construction – a very convenient one when you want to take someone else’s property, or kill them, or enslave them. It is this construct that animates the American debate about foreign policy – or even domestic policy when it comes to "aliens" of one kind or another.

But it is deadly. It swarms countries, and consumes cities. Fallujah was flattened, with its main hospital the first target. Three hundred thousand people are now refugees in their own country, because of US actions, and an unknown number are dead. That is a war crime – but is not seen as such by most of the US public, who are under the sway of the ideology of imperial racism. The death of an entire city does not matter to them, because there were no real people there. Racism does more than color the situation – it defines it. How do you kill a city and call it victory? Why is this celebrated as a benchmark of "progress"? Is the assumption that the white man’s triumph is, inherently, progress?

Of course it is. That’s what imperial racism is all about. There are "enemies" and "others" who are not "Western" – a euphemism for "non-white" – the construct they keep making up every time they want to steal something.

The hard-right Israelis are very good at this game. They are on totally racial mission, and have made their construct. Jewishness is a race, in Israel, with rights that only accrue to Jews. We are supposed to believe that Jews have a right to shape Palestine in such a way that they always have a majority. How does that conform with any democratic principle?

Now the hard-right regime in Jerusalem is making war against the entire Palestinian society, destroying its infrastructure – its bridges, roads and energy facilities – to make all 1.2 million inhabitants of Gaza pay some kind of price. However, it is a price that can not be paid. The extremist Israelis are racial imperialists who are not looking for anything other than the mass elimination of a people from the land. They have invested the firing of tens of thousands of rounds of artillery into one of the most crowded corners of the world to achieve this purpose: but their motives are well understood by everyone who is not a racial imperialist.

Everyone, that is, except the (white) Americans, who eat this crap up. The uniform reaction of the American corporate media to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that something resembling the rule of law must prevail at Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. installations, has been to frame the issue in domestic political terms. The Bush administration had been politically tarnished, was the conclusion: not that it had violated international law, and was in fact an outlaw among nations. The situation has been framed as one of domestic political peril for Republicans – maybe in November – but not how the U.S. gets along with the rest of the world.

In the same way, the Israeli "incursions" into Gaza and the West bank have been framed as defensive measures, even as the world’s forth-strongest military power relentlessly pounded a people who have virtually no military with thousands of rounds of artillery a day. As the entire world knows, Israel could not possibly have amassed such an amazing war machine, unless they had been subsidized by a superpower. And, of course, they were.

In the Arab world, and the larger Muslim world, the "incursions" are seen as alien invasions, and as a threat to their own societies. The Israeli Zionist project is never discussed in the U.S, and now it has become forbidden to speak of it. Meanwhile, a reign of terror exists in Gaza and the West Bank. The terrorists are the Israeli government and armed forces, but instead our own media keeps showing us pictures of a goofy-looking Israeli soldier, while a whole people are being strangled and bombed.

None of this could happen, if there were not racial imperialism, in which the Jews of Israel were considered "white" – and, therefore, had inherent rights. White Americans also think they have rights that not nobody else possesses. There is a connection between the extremist Zionist scheme and the umbilical cord of imperialism. Here is the result, that places the Zionist perspective and the "American" worldview in proper place.

Just as the Americans obliterated Fallujah, Zionists in Israel want to wipe out whole cities. Gaza City has to go. Up in flames. Member of the Knesset, Moshe Sharoni, taunted his Arab colleagues in the Israeli parliament. He said:

"We need to obliterate Gaza and call it the City of Murderers, the City of Terrorists."

This is the mentality of mass murderers.

But then, you can only murder real people. Imperialism kills non-people. That’s the nature of the beast. It can only act that way.

Who is wagging this dog? Many of these people are from Brooklyn. American racism and imperialism are the same thing. It appears to have been efficiently exported.

Written by BC Publishers, Glen Ford and Peter Gamble

False flag terrorism
http://www.gv2000.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=38

Although we cannot yet be certain, it appears very likely that the London bombings fall into the category of False-flag state terrorism, into which also fall 9/11 and it now appears the Madrid bombingof 3/11/04 (911 days after 911).

The following advert was placed in the Independent, July 1st, p29 and is reproduced here, reformatted, with one or two small changes. In the run-up to the anniversary of the London atrocity, please help to spread it around, because the current lies dishonour the dead.

RELEASE THE EVIDENCE!

One year on – a time for Truth.

London - July 7th 2005. A day of slaughter, tears and solidarity. 56 precious lives lost, hundreds are injured, traumatised, bereaved. All of us made less secure. Muslims suffer increased suspicion and attacks.

Before anyone could know, the Prime Minister hints at who was responsible. Despite the pre-war ‘framing’ of Iraq, most media take Blair as reliable and give credence to unattributable police and intelligence ‘sources’ (aka hearsay). Where facts are scarce or contradictory, the emotional appeal of the notion of ‘Islamic terror’ will plug the holes.

Although some people, including some Muslims, abuse their religion to target civilians, calm assessment should have suggested additional possibilities:

Who did it last time? Soho pub (fascist) and Bishopsgate (IRA). Terrorism has also been practiced by British, US and other intelligence agencies, ask the Irish, ask the survivors of the Bologna rail station massacre of 1980, successfully blamed on Red Brigade patsies (Reference 1) ‘Britain’s 9-11’ ? – as if that conspiracy tale is beyond question! (2)

The biggest slaughter in London since the Luftwaffe, yet – according to Blair - a Public Inquiry would be ‘a distraction’. Too slow. Too expensive! ‘Besides’, went the subtext, ‘we all know who did it, don’t we?’ But do ‘we’? And did the promised ‘narrative’ (3) deal with awkward facts or paper over the difficulties?

MIND THE GAPS! – WOULD YOU CONVICT?

1) Identity of alleged perpetrators: if you were on a jury would you convict on the basis of this photograph of the supposed 'bombers' supposedly entering Luton station that morning?
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4712

1) faces indistinct – yet June 28th images from this camera 14 much clearer; 2) left arm of ‘Khan’ appears entangled with railing ; 3) ‘Hussain’s’ feet are incorrectly mirrored in the glass frontage of the building behind ‘Khan’ ; 4) Report puts station entry at 7.15.

2) Lack of CCTV footage: From the surveillance capital of the world we have not one image of the four suspects on the day. Instead of connected footage from a score of cameras, we have to take alleged CCTV sightings on trust. But after the Lawrence Inquiry finding of’institutional racism’, and now after the Stockwell and Forest Gate shootings and lies, the Met has no right to expect trust (4)

3) Luton departure: The Official Report says the Leeds 4 caught the 7.40 train. Small problem. Thameslink officials say the 7.40 didn’t run that day. Also that the 7.30 (left at 7.42) didn’t arrive until 8.39 - too late to catch Circle line trains. (5) Who would you normally trust?

4) London arrival: The suspects are reported (but not shown) on CCTV near Thameslink platform at 8.26 ‘heading in the direction of the London Underground system’ (i.e. by subway to the tube platforms) but then ‘are seen’ hugging at Kings Cross [underground ticket hall?] ‘around 8.30’, before splitting up after which they ‘must have’ boarded their various trains, beginning 8.35, so we are told. (No, it doesn’t make sense to us either.)

5) How were bodies identified? Khan’s personal documents were found to have miraculously survived at the epicentre of three explosions. Lindsay’s ID only turned up at the crime scene on 15 July, two days after his house was searched. His DNA was long said to be have been found on his station parking ticket – yet the Report has his car towed away [contrary to car park policy] as unticketted.

6) Nature of explosives: Initial reports were of military explosives, now its HMTD or extremely unstable TATP – which doesn’t flash, and thus doesn’t match survivor accounts of flashes. 10 months later the Report solemnly tells us ‘Expert examination continues but it appears that the bombs were home made.’

7) Location of explosives: The Official Report ignores the testimony of Aldgate survivor Bruce Lait and policewoman Lizzie Kenworthy, who independently reported a hole in the floor with the metal pushed up.

8) Coincidence: No mention of radio and TV interviews with senior ex-policeman and security consultant, Peter Power: ‘At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning’.

9) Tavistock Sq : Bus workers report the 30 Bus was the only one diverted that morning, and its depot had been visited for 20 hours by a ‘non-regular’ maintenance crew at the weekend. Internet tittle tattle? Maybe. Yet, why should we believe an equally anonymous ‘Yard source’ that the (normally reliable) bus CCTV system wasn’t operating? Especially when only one picture from the (evidently working) traffic cam has been released. There is no possible public interest served by not reassuring Muslims and many others who worry that there may be something to hide. [Added now: Among extraordinary coincidences here are the location of the blast, just outside the offices of The BMA and The Lancet, which had ruffled feathers with its research that 100,000 civilians had died in Iraq, and also the location of a van from a company which among other things offers specialist controlled explosions - which appears to have been level with the back of the bus, though doubtless is entirely innocent.]

10) Prior knowledge? The Head of Mossad confirmed (6) earlier AP reports that ‘the Mossad office in London received advance notice of the attacks’ (6 minutes). No mention in the Official Report. What about the Leeds end? The Intelligence and Security Committee Report into the London Bombings describes Khan as having been ‘peripheral’ to previous surveillance and investigative operations. Yet much time and money was spent on photographing him, tapping his telephone and tracking his car. Transcripts of the taped telephone conversations were never made available to the ISC. Why not?


More and more people are asking ‘Could the Leeds 4 have been stopped? Was it incompetence or something worse?’ (7) In the light of severe ‘London end’ discrepancies should the question rather be: Was Khan and his network being groomed as credible patsies? (in which case it would be important that they were shielded from arrest before they were duped or otherwise drawn in). What proof do we really have that they even made it to Luton?

We just do not know, and we suggest the reader doesn’t either. Please join in the pressure for the full truth to come out - whatever it turns out to be.

References:

1) A ‘patsy’ is someone who gets the blame in a frame-up. See Webster Tarpley’s model of False-flag state terrorism carried out by State and privatised networks: 9/11 Synthetic Terror – Made in USA; (Progressive Press, 2005); In Europe see Nato’s Secret Armies- Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Daniele Ganser (Cass, 2005). On terrorism as state doctrine, see ‘google’ P2OG
2) Scholars for 911 Truth : http://www.st911.org/ ; see also http://www.mujca.com/ - Muslims, Jews and Christians Against 911 False Witness
3) Report of the Official Account of the London Bombings of July 7th 2005.
4) Campaign against Criminalising Communities http://http://www.cacc.org.uk/
5) E-mails 16/8/05 and 25/8/05 from Customer Relations, Kings Cross, and Communications Manager, Luton.
6) Bild am Sonntag, July 2000
7) An interesting book which is getting a lot of attention is Nafeez Ahmed’s, The London Bombings – An Independent Inquiry (Duckworth, 2006). This casts very sharp doubts on the London end of the official story (train times, nature and location of explosives) but then completely ignores his opening fifty pages when he proceeds to examine how ‘the bombers’ (assumed to be the Leeds 4) could have been linked to Al-Qaida and under MI5 surveillance.
8) Facts not referenced here can mostly be checked on http://www.julyseventh.co.uk or http://www.officialconfusion.com/77/index.html . No groups or events mentioned in this advert are responsible for its contents.


July 7th Anniversary Ad-hoc Appeal

1) Against all attacks on harmless civilians

2) Don’t presuppose ‘Muslim guilt’

3) Support whistleblowers.

4) Release the evidence - CCTV, traffic cam, phone, computer, bank, etc

5) For a credible and searching Independent Public Inquiry: adequate Remit; extensive Powers; open Procedures; appropriate Resources; broad social Composition; widely acceptable (including in Beeston).

6) Support Amnesty’s boycott of any public inquiry conducted under Blair’s Inquiries Act 2005 (designed to shield spook wrongdoing).

7) An end to War of Terror raids on Muslim communities!


Further information from J7AAA, 2b Darnhall Cres, Perth PH2 0HH; keith[dot]mothersson[at]phonecop[dot]coop ; or 01738 783677


For information on showings of Mind the Gaps or to acquire a copy (dvd) please contact via http://www.officialconfusion.com

July 7 analysis (and some more speculative posts) can also be found on the discussion forum of the UK 9-11 Truth movement, http://www.nineeleven.co.uk

The parallels between the rapid deterioration into totalitarianism in the US and the UK are too frightening to ignore. Yet this is precisely what the mainstream media (MSM) in both countries do in order to ensure that their public are kept ignorant of the dangers that now scream out for attention.

Only the parallel reality of the Net keeps the thinking mind aware of what's going on. If that is taken away from us we shall have to master the arts of telepathy.

The gateway into the current Matrix World was, there can be no doubt, the premeditated events of 911 after which it didn't take very long for the likes of Blair to announce, pompously, to the world that "the world would never be the same again." The MSM, on cue, picked this up immediately and made it into its mantra. With horrific symbolism the twin towers of the World Trade Center became the entrance into a nightmare world of endless war through which public opinion was dragged stunned like frightened cattle to the slaughter.

First described as a "War on Terrorism" and now "the Long War", the politics of Fear was first introduced by the Straussian Neocons to the US and then, almost immediately, to the UK where the authoritarian and arch-neocon, Blair, was ready to embrace it and make it his own preferred mode of government.

With the mentality of a thieving magpie, Blair and his fellow quislings understood perfectly the machiavellian antecedents of the Washington neocons' Politics of Fear, found it to their personal liking and plotted 7/7.

And just to keep the witch's brew boiling in the pot, from time to time, further "terror" incidents like Forest Gate are conjured up to keep the public in place under the trance of intimidation and fear.

If anything, British politicians are experts in the subtle use of state-terror, not only having had several centuries to practise it in their Empire but, more recently, in Belfast, Ulster and the Irish Republic. In the same way that they used covert operations in those other parts of the British Isles, they now find themselves employing the same methods on the homeland. The propaganda that goes with the dirty tricks is clear enough: the public had better get used to this kind of thing happening over and over again. In other words, get used to living in the police state.

This is what Blair meant when he said that the world had changed. This is what he and the usurper in the White House were preparing us for. And this is what the mainstream media studiously avoid examining.

In the same way it accepted the "Communist, Red Menace" hook, line and sinker it accepted Islamophobia as a suitable replacement bogeyman. The ingrained racism born of several centuries of righteous 'Christian' crusades against dark hordes of whirling dervishes suited the West well and their own fundamentalists' Judeo-Christian expectations of a bloody Armageddon. Here was the perfect window-of-opportunity for the righteous to allow all their darkest bigotry to fly free from the constraints of their collective unconscious in the most murderous killing-spree of all.

Make no mistake: when Blair and his neocon chums chose the politics of fear as their modus operandi, they knew that part of the fundamental cynicism ruling such a choice meant the scape-goating of fellow-humans. It meant turning their countries into prison-camps fortressed off from the rest of the world where the giant of Islam lies sleeping fitfully above reservoirs of oil and gas to be wrested away through imperialist force and nuclear blackmail. They use the politics of fear as the only method of control left to them as social democracy is flushed into the sewers to be replaced with government by ministerial decree and a rump parliament.

The Government is using its fake War on Terror in order to intimidate and subjugate the public. As Thatcher used the police force to do the same thing by picking on the Caribbean community, Blair hopes he can keep us all under control by picking on innocent Muslims, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis. Keep provoking the dog with a stick until it retaliates. Then give it a taste of the full, violent force of the Law. They can't win, they won't win. And we shall have suceeded in showing the rest of the country how violent they are and why only further repressive legislative and policing methods must be introduced in order to keep law and order.

The whole country will have been turned into one vast, Belfast prison camp.

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Venezuela: More than ever before today, Karl Marx is becoming relevant!

University of Los Andes (ULA) professor Franz J. T. Lee writes: In our Bolivarian study circles, in my university classes, in the revolutionary rank and file, a great interest in the theories of imperialism is awakening in the general revolutionary consciousness of many students and comrades in Venezuela.

Everybody wants to know what really is the "empire," why is it the "Fourth Empire" and what is "Imperialism"?

Yes, in our faculty of law and political science, at the University of The Andes (ULA), Merida, for a quarter of a century, nobody has ever taught any student anything about the theories of imperialism and of fascism. In fact, since the 1960s such topics have become "obsolete" and have disappeared from the academic curricula.

In fact, even in countries like Germany, at the University of Franc fort, in the Faculty of Social Sciences, already a decade ago, the whole history of the workers' movement on a global scale has fallen under the censorship ax of the alma mater of modernized globalization.

Small wonder that we find eternal students like Nixon Moreno who as self-proclaimed student "leaders" become easy political prey as henchmen for the CIA vultures or for the United States Ambassadors to Venezuela, like Charles Shapiro and William Brownfield.

This is not accidental ... as the result of open imperialist attacks, the Bolivarian Revolution is entering higher degrees of social self-consciousness, of scientific praxis and philosophic theory, of historic change and human emancipation.

As we may recollect, as fundamental general policy, over the last century nearly all national and colonial liberation movements and social revolutions had declared total war against imperialism. African nationalism and even Pan-Africanism against European divide et impera was definitely anti- imperialist, but strange enough, it was pro-capitalist in essence. In Southern Africa most anti-imperialist liberation movements ... in their "Freedom Charters" or "10-Point Programs" ... simply wanted also to enjoy all the capitalist goodies that their white masters were relishing. Currently the "Rainbow Nation" of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in a "Free South Africa" is more capitalist than ever before, and it is caught in the corporate fangs of world imperialism.

Historically, the result of such a theoretical error is that till this very day Euro-American imperialism is ruling the whole continent of Africa. A general study of Marxist theory of imperialism could have avoided such a fateful equivocation.

Clinging to world capitalism, will we in Latin America, in Venezuela, commit the same theoretical errors?

Beyond doubt, Venezuela is still a capitalist country and under the heroic direction of the Bolivarian Revolution, there is no escape, under popular pressure she still will have to answer the multi-petro-dollar question of the excellent Marxist expert in matters concerning imperialism ... of Rosa Luxemburg: In Venezuela, Reform or Revolution?

• Furthermore, is it possible for a workers' socialist revolution to be anti-imperialist and pro-capitalist at the same time?

Could "socialism" of pre-Columbian societies or of the Age of Jesus Christ annihilate the current capitalist, imperialist, corporate, world empire?

With a sober mind, and by activating our analytic neurones, without the updated explanations of modern living Marxist theories of imperialism, how on earth could we ever dream about toppling the Bush Empire and creating a New Socialism of the 21st Century?

Surely, class alliances of Capital and Labor, a new rich middle class, an equal redistribution of national income, big oil and gas business with the magnates of globalization surely will not create an integrated emancipated Latin America, free from world fascism and corporate imperialism.

Contrary to many widely accepted bourgeois theories of international relations and to the bulk of the theories of "dependency," mainly the Marxist theories of imperialism have explained to us that capitalism and imperialism are simply appearance forms of the very same thing, of the modern transhistoric process of production, of global history.

The term "imperialism" itself dates back to the epoch of the 1848 revolutions in Europe; politically it was used to describe the gradual British and French capitalist expansion toward Africa, the Americas, Asia and elsewhere, in other words, the beginning of globalization. In Venezuela, it is impossible to be anti-imperialist and at the same time favor globalization.

As indicated before, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and globalization are just different scientific terms to describe the different appearance forms and development of the one and the same beloved bed-fellow that is disseminating its AIDS freely by prostituting itself globally.

In their famous writings, Marxists and even liberals, like John Atkinson Hobson, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir I. Lenin, Rudolf Hilferding and Hannah Arendt, have explained that national liberal capitalism logically had to induce imperialism in order to conquer cheap labor, new natural resources and new markets. On the world market, expanding capitalism brought about a complex dialectical process of systemic, global, equal, unequal and combined developments.

From now onwards, towards globalization, it was evident that States like Haiti and the United States found (and still find) themselves in the same dialectical historical process; the former is just as under-developed as the latter is over-developed. Historically, there is no way back, the French Revolution, now headed by the Bush military junta, inexorably is globalizing itself, closely accompanied by the Industrial Revolution that now expands itself militarily as Corporate America

No country in the world can make its own private, bourgeois, democratic, capitalist revolution anymore. Nobody can dislocate him- or herself from the world market, from globalization.

Globalized, solar Cyberspace and Internet will soon reach the Planet Mars.

Without underestimating the cultural and social factors, as a result of this breath-taking capitalist development Marxists like Rudolf Hilferding already extended the definition of imperialism to the spheres of international trade and banking. to finance capitalism. Ernest Mandel, in the 1960's lacking a new term, simply called modern imperialism "Late Capitalism."

Obviously, the historic process of imperialism originally launched by European colonialism, concerned territorial conquest and forced European or slave settlements. It had to do with extending bloody military and spiritual authoritarian control over other peoples and with producing and maintaining huge overseas empires by violent coercive machinations of the State.

When the colonial masters began to colonize other continents, ever since 1860, some authors referred to this "Age of Imperialism" as the New Imperialism; it is this type of imperialism that specifically interest us here. We are not interested in imperialism that concerns "the white man's burden" (Rudyard Kipling, 1899).

Already at the eve of the 20th century in capitalist poetic lingo and imperialist jargon this is what British imperialism, the father of Yankee Imperialism, thought about us:

"Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child."

This is how European imperialism saw us, as "half-devil and half-child." In Africa, we were called "black baboons and monkeys," the economic burden of Prime Minister William Pitt of Great Britain. In the dominant class interests of the inexorable accumulation of metropolitan capital, as psychological mind pillage and cultural imperialist control, across a colonial and neo-colonial education for savagery the capitalist system surreptitiously inculcated into our minds deliberate ideological venom, a sophisticated master-slave mentality, inferiority complexes and monotheistic, paternalistic religions.

Many of us were converted into staunch defenders of the status quo, into reformists, into saviors of our own misery; we began to believe that our poverty is god given, that capitalism is "good" and that the problem is simply to change the "leaders· by means of "democratic" elections.

Meanwhile the very President Bush is teaching us what is American imperialist electoral "democracy."

The counter-revolutionary effects we register daily in the diatribal local, national and global attacks against the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan government. It is simply tragic to see how great sectors of the youth were bamboozled and manipulated, how they have swallowed the imperialist propaganda hook and sinker, how myopic and blindfolded they have become, by developing a single historic project: Away with Chavez! This is mental psychosis, pathological imperialism at its best, this is imperialist corruption of the youth, is lumpen-intellect at its worst, it is a case of emancipatory treatment for Dr. med. Frantz Fanon.

The present moment of historic development urgently necessitate the resurrection of Karl Marx and of all the real Marxists, as our daily praxis and theory, our science and philosophy. A Renaissance of Marxist theory of imperialism would serve as a precise guide for the current Bolivarian Revolution, not to end up in globalized barbarism.

• We eternalized Bolivar already, let us do the same with Karl Marx, without him, we will never understand Fidel and Che, and now Chavez and Evo!

For Venezuela, the urgent study of the politico-economic aspects of Marxist theory of imperialism is a sine qua non not to fall blindly into the pot holes of current social reformism, into the Moloch of globalization. The road to globalized imperialist and corporate hell is paved with "good" intentions, with "good" liberal capitalism. Pertaining to the Bolivarian Revolution, here we can just mention a few pertinent aspects of Marxist anti-capitalist anti-imperialism.

Contrary to the social revolutions of the 20th century, the Bolivarian Revolution is taking place in the epoch of universal global capitalism, of globalization. This gives it a very special character and historic task.

Fervently, Marx and Engels had described the current epoch already in the "Communist Manifesto" as capitalism spreading throughout the world, "exploding all Chinese walls." In corporate imperialism, currently the very logic of capitalism has realized itself, its brutal accumulation, centralization, commodification, monopolization, its merciless profit-mongering and competition ... it has penetrated just about every fiber of human life and living cell of nature itself and therewith, as Marx and Engels indicated, also would set free the possibility of its own dialectical annihilation, brought about by its very own intrinsic negation, by world socialism.

For them, precisely this what is happening now ... total globalization of capitalism, universal imperialism ... was the true hour of "human emancipation" (Marx, in the "German Ideology"). More than ever before today, Marx is becoming relevant; it would be fatal for us, not to grasp this final emancipatory moment.

Concerning "modern imperialism," long ago, excellent Marxist thinkers have predicted the current world politico-economic fiasco. On another occasion, we will deal with the theories of imperialism, for example, with those of Hilferding and Rosa Luxemburg, that economically directly concern us here in Venezuela, and which a century ago indicated the current economic. global collapse.

Furthermore, Rosa Luxemburg, for example, stated that the capitalist system necessarily needs outlets in non-capitalist formations, and logically produces militarism and imperialism. Hence the current Yankee militarism and imperialist attacks against Venezuela form part and parcel of the economic conquest of world expansionist capitalism.

Furthermore, capitalist militarism, that is, imperialism, does not need pretexts for straightforward conquest or military invasion of foreign territories or of theft of natural resources, it has already become a ruling class "weapon in the competitive struggle between capitalist countries for areas of non-capitalist civilization." (Rosa Luxemburg)

Although reigning for a relatively short period of time, and in spite of the fact that the "Stars and Stripes" and the "In God We Trust" are setting already on the American horizon, rapidly vanishing as the sole world power, as "American Empire," the United States of America still is a strong political, economic and military reality. We should not under-estimate this imperialist monstrosity.

Modern global imperialism is determined by its corporate struggle to survive at all costs, to check-mate its rivals for global hegemony, and to nip any proletarian world revolution in the bud. Because of the latter, the Bolivarian Revolution is in immediate permanent danger. This is the reason why it must know its counterpart, that is, capitalist imperialism, imperialist capitalism.

As Marx has explained in his famous work, Capital was born into this world dripping with blood and dirt from head to foot.

How brutal the various colonial capitalist forms were (and partially still are) we in the "Third World," in South Humania, have experienced concretely over the past half a millennium. They have cost us hundred millions of precious lives. To relate in detail how fascist and terrorist modern corporate imperialism was and still is would take years to relate here, however, just take a glimpse at the following: the gulags, world wars, Moscow Trials, Auschwitz, Workuta, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Sharpeville, Soweto, Zionism, colonial massacres, military coups and dictatorships in Latin America, the foreign policy of the USA, the massacres of My Lai and Djakarta, the "Caracazo," the "Twin Towers," New Orleans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo...

These are the reasons why we on a world scale do not have the luxury to fail.

Chavez: It is Victory or Death, even if we have to fight a "hundred years assymetric war."

Franz J. T. Lee
franz@vheadline.com

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