Settlers - San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
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engaged in as many as 71 direct military interventions outside<br />
their own borders in the postwar period, all but 4 of<br />
which have been in the Third World." (6)<br />
Thus, there is nothing "benign" about imperialistic<br />
parasitism. The so-called world market is not a<br />
neutral trading ground, but a system of rigged transactions<br />
and economic crimes at gunpoint. There is a direct, one-toone<br />
relationship between world hunger, mass unemployment<br />
and proletarian "conditions approaching slavery"<br />
(to use the words of the Wall Street Journal) on the one<br />
hand, and a fortified Babylon filled with consumer<br />
decadence and arms factories on the other hand. For<br />
generations the increasingly proletarian masses of Afrika,<br />
Asia and Latin Amerika have labored - and yet live in<br />
misery.<br />
No society would freely enter into such selfdestructive<br />
relationships. A world of colonies and neocolonies<br />
create the only conditions for the imperialist "free<br />
market." In addition to its own armies, imperialism maintains<br />
in every nation that it dominates puppet military and<br />
police forces, amounting world-wide to millions of armed<br />
men, in order to extend capitalistic repression into the<br />
smallest and remotest village. The Third World War is<br />
already going on.