Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

moreover supplies cheap raw materials and pays high pricesfor manufactured articles.It says further:. . . there flows from Latin America to the United Statesa constant torrent of money: some $4,000 per minute, $5million per day, $2 billion per year, $10 billion each fiveyears. For each thousand dollars which leaves us, one deadbody remains. $1,000 per death, that is the price of whatis called imperialism.The facts are clear. After World War II the imperialistshave certainly not given up colonialism, but have merelyadopted a new form, neo-colonialism. An important characteristicof such neo-colonialism is that the imperialists havebeen forced to change their old style of direct colonial rule insome areas and to adopt a new style of colonial rule and exploitationby relying on the agents they have selected andtrained. The imperialists headed by the United States enslaveor control the colonial countries and countries which have alreadydeclared their independence by organizing military blocs,setting up military bases, establishing “federations” or “communities”,and fostering puppet regimes. By means of economic“aid” or other forms, they retain these countries as marketsfor their goods, sources of raw material and outlets fortheir export of capital, plunder the riches and suck the bloodof the people of these countries. Moreover, they use the UnitedNations as an important tool for interfering in the internalaffairs of such countries and for subjecting them to military,economic and cultural aggression. When they are unable tocontinue their rule over these countries by “peaceful” means,they engineer military coups d’etat, carry out subversion oreven resort to direct armed intervention and aggression.The United States is most energetic and cunning in promotingneo-colonialism. With this weapon, the U.S. imperialistsare trying hard to grab the colonies and spheres of influenceof other imperialists and to establish world domination.190