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to developing countries. American capitalists discredit wars of liberation,
especially the establishment of what we call provisional revolutionary
governments, by pouring in the very bounty they stoIc into the
puppet administrations they set up. This is why they keep talking about
"Victnamization"; because, they say, "We will supply thcm."Thcy can
supply them.
It is for these reasons that I always make reference to a Latin phrase:
trespass de bonis asportatis. In the old English law, this referred to a particular
kind of trespass that included the expropriation of someone else's
goods. Usually, it was a charge made against landlords, who had illegally
seized a tenant's possessions. The landlord might ship these
belongings to a storage facility or distribute the tenant's articles as he
saw fit. In many respects, this is precisely what the U.S. rulers have
done with the goods of the people of the world; not with the lock and
key of the landlord, but with the gun. This abundance of bounty from
robbery has built a monster of technology. In the future, however, this
will be good for us, because the same supercapitalists will be our supply
sergeants. We will feed India, and all of Africa will spring up as
one breadbasket.
Yet this leads us to the question: Why does Africa need contributions
from a small continent like North America? Simply put, it is the
result of the technology question. If so-called revolutionists would start
thinking in terms of this relationship, they would see that Africa will
blossom and spread her wings, but only spread her wings when we learn
to get from her natural resources a maximum yield. With the poor land
in the United States, American capitalists produce more than Africa
is producing now. However, this phenomenon develops only after they
break the people and expropriate the raw materials and wealth. At that
point, the technology is applied, at leisure, to the spoils. The loot is
abstracted and removed to the technological institutes.
Another question arises: Why do the tyrants fight? They fight simply
because of the need of the ruling, reactionary circle of the United
States to sell the products of their technology to more and more people
for capital gains. Consequently, they fight in Vietnam not for the
land or for the raw materials found there. Rather, they fight because
they need the people! Western capitalists need people in order to have
buyers at too-high prices fo r their now overexpanding market. As