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tries bec:Use they feel (and they have all done this) that they have
bought off the militaries in these various developing countries so that
they will only be an arm of the Pentagon. The military regime in Greece
is a good example. They have full control of the military officers, paying
them high salaries so they feel that they will not have to send American
troops and disturb the mother country.
But what happens when one battalion of military is defeated? Then
you send in reinforcements for the defeated puppet army in that developing
country. The whole government becomes subject to the army.
And the army becomes suspicious of the civil government in these
developing countries because they are told by the Pentagon through
indoctrination and money that the civil government is a communist
threat to the nation. Military coups follow, and this is what happens
over and over with the support of the U.S.
We have actually an imperialistic variation of imperialism. The jockeying
for positions of power is inside of the mother country now, so,
in fact, the American people have become colonized.
At one time I thought that only Blacks were colonized. But I think
we have to change our rhetoric to an extent because the whole American
people have been colonized, if you view exploitation as a colonized
effect. Seventy-six companies have exploited everyone.
American people are a colonized people even more so than the people
in developing countries where the military operates.
This is why the Peace Movement is so important. If the Peace Movement
is successful, then the revolution will be successful. If the Peace
Movement fails, then the revolution in the mother country fails. In
other words, the people would be pushed so uptight once war were to
stop that the whole economy would go down the drain. Only a planned
economy could combat the chaos that an absence of incentive causes.
Now war is the incentive for the military contractors.
This is why it is very important that we have communications with
the Peace Movement. Not only should we communicate with it, we
should actually get out and support it fully in various ways including
literature and demonstrations.
We have to realize our position, and we have to know ourselves and
know our enemies. A thousand wars and a thousand victories. And until
we know who the enemy is and what the situation is we will only be