A leaflet critiquing President Richard Nixon's policies in southeast Asia from a global anti-imperialist perspective. It discusses U.S. policy toward Cambodia, Vietnam, and the U.S. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). The U.S. is spending $17 billion a year on "defense," which defends U.S. global economic interests, i.e. imperialism. The U.S. ruling class considers the underdeveloped countries of southeast Asia, South America and Africa as an integral part of its own economic system. Peoples of the underdeveloped countries are also part of the American class system, just as they are a part of the economic system. Peasants and their land provide not only the basic raw materials (at...
A leaflet critiquing President Richard Nixon's policies in southeast Asia from a global anti-imperialist perspective. It discusses U.S. policy toward Cambodia, Vietnam, and the U.S. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). The U.S. is spending $17 billion a year on "defense," which defends U.S. global economic interests, i.e. imperialism. The U.S. ruling class considers the underdeveloped countries of southeast Asia, South America and Africa as an integral part of its own economic system. Peoples of the underdeveloped countries are also part of the American class system, just as they are a part of the economic system. Peasants and their land provide not only the basic raw materials (at prices dictated by the U.S.) but also cheap labor; this allows the U.S. to maintain the majority of white workers in the metropolitan U.S. in a position of privilege and thus, for a time, have them identify with the interests of U.S. imperialism. The leaflet says the people of the underdeveloped capitalist countries (the so-called Third World) are part of the U.S. working class; they work for the same corporations or their subsidiaries, or supply the raw materials for the corporations, but are super-exploited workers.
