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Toure related this to the fact that the average per capita income in the U.S., which in 1945 was ten times greater than the average income in Asia, Afrika and Latin Amerika, had by 1960 become even more extreme - no less than seventeen times as much as the average Third World income! (3) This extractive process has since 1960 only stepped up its tempo, driven to new levels by imperialism's crisis of profitability. The New York Times recently said: "Commodity prices have in fact reached their lowest levels in 30 years.. .For Central America's agricultural economies, the terms of trade - the relative prices of exports and imports - have deteriorated 40 per cent since 1977.. .the gap between the richest and poorest nations has widened.. .Moreover, many ruial societies are no longer able to feed themselves. In Africa, for example, there is In his 1982 Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez reminded the world how in the previous eleven years Latin America has 1 suffered from imperialist violence. "There have been 5 wars and 17 military coups; there emerged a diabolial dictator who is carrying out, in God's name, the first Latin American ethnocide of our time. In the meantime, 20 million Latin American children died before the age of one - more than have been born in Europe since 1970. "Those missing because of repression number nearly 120,000, which is as if no one would account for all the inhabitants of Upsala. Numerous women arrested while pregnant have given birth in Argentine prisons, yet nobody knows the whereabouts and identity of their children ... Because they tried to change this state of things, nearly 200,000 men and women have died throughout the continent, and over 100,000 have lost their lives in three small and ill-fated countries of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatamala. If this had happened in the United States, the corresponding figure would be that of 1,600,000 violent deaths in four years. "One million people have fled Chile, a country with a tradition of hospitality - that is, I0 percent of its population. Uruguay, a tiny nation of two and a half million inhcbitants, which considered itself the continent's most civilized country, has lost to exile one out of every five citizens ... The country that could be formed of all the exiles and forced emigrants of Latin America would have a population larger than that of Norway. " less food per capita today than there was 20 years ago, with sub-Saharan Africa frequently ravaged by starvation. "(4) Behind the neo-colonial facade of international airports, of tourist hotels, of Mercedes-Benz society in the capital cities, is a world of oppressed nations increasingly war-torn, looted and socially disorganized. No less than the Wall Street Journal clinically described this in the example of the Dominican Republic: "Sugar had been like oil to the Dominican Republic, allowing the country to import its needs without learning to develop them locally. 'Over the past few years we've been able to create the illusion of being a developed country - we have the latest computers, automobiles and appliances,' says Felipe Vicini. 'But we aren't developed at all. ' "Stripped of its imported goods, the Dominican Republic is essentially what it was 100 years ago - a plantation society with thousands of acres of sugar cane, some bananas and cocoa, and several gold and silver mines. Today, in this plantation society, about 6% of the population owns 40% of the wealth. Most of the people are peasants, living in areas where unemployment is 50%, illiteracy is 80% and many of the adults and children are malnourished. The impoverished population spills over into urban barrios and in the city streets children beg.. . "In the sugar fields, wages average $3.50 a day, at least during the six-month cutting season when work is available. Much of the cutting is done by Haitians...some half million of them roam the Dominican countryside often working in conditions approaching slavery." (5) In 1965, when a reform government was attempted by a faction of the Dominican military, the U.S. promptly invaded with 23,000 troops to restore the old order. The neo-colonial societies are not, of themselves, stable or viable. To maintain them imperialism subjects the world to a never-ending series of search-and-destroy missions. There is both the "white death" by starvation and disease and the literally millions of Third World casualties from endless war. Jon Stewart of the Pacific News Service has written: "According to War In Peace, a new book published in London, about 35 million people have died in 130 military conflicts in more than 100 countries (all but a handful in the Third World) since the end of World War 11. In the vast majority of these conflicts, the four original powers of the UN Security Council - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - have played prominent direct or indirect roles. "One thinks especially of Korea, which claimed 2% million lives and involved all the great powers; of Indochina, which involved all the great powers but Britain; of France's bloody colonial wars in Africa, which claimed several million.. . "The argument that these Third World wars - which, taken together, really represent a third World War - are mostly the products of nation-building among backward and bloodthirsty societies simply doesn't wash. At least it doesn't explain why the four great powers ... have 34
engaged in as many as 71 direct military interventions outside their own borders in the postwar period, all but 4 of which have been in the Third World." (6) Thus, there is nothing "benign" about imperialistic parasitism. The so-called world market is not a neutral trading ground, but a system of rigged transactions and economic crimes at gunpoint. There is a direct, one-toone relationship between world hunger, mass unemployment and proletarian "conditions approaching slavery" (to use the words of the Wall Street Journal) on the one hand, and a fortified Babylon filled with consumer decadence and arms factories on the other hand. For generations the increasingly proletarian masses of Afrika, Asia and Latin Amerika have labored - and yet live in misery. No society would freely enter into such selfdestructive relationships. A world of colonies and neocolonies create the only conditions for the imperialist "free market." In addition to its own armies, imperialism maintains in every nation that it dominates puppet military and police forces, amounting world-wide to millions of armed men, in order to extend capitalistic repression into the smallest and remotest village. The Third World War is already going on.
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U.S. imperialism would rather that
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carpenter would earn in a day. When
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while the evil planter and the Lond
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society of settlers. The large majo
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11. STRUGGLES & ALLIANCES The popul
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, . , in short what wee did in that
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more nearly fascistic. Bacon was th
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"democracy" through wresting their
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111. THE CONTRADICTIONS OF NATION &
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The Charleston conspiracy of 1822,
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IV. SETTLER TRADE- UNIONISM 1. The
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Cherokee Nation on "Trail of Tears
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taxation and other measures to give
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gospel truth by most settlers that
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their places as barbers and servant
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is a historic engineering achieveme
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Chinaman always have something to e
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off the former plantations at bayon
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hostility, can be expected of two-t
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the early 1830's, continued and gat
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dustries, trades, and nationalities
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Irish, (2) German, and (3) many sma
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ed bribery: "The truth is this: dur
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narionally-disrincf strata (literal
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2. Settler Opposition To Imperialis
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fine and resumed his post as U.S. c
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The I.W.W. publicly criticised thos
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danger, because alcohol was needed
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Millions of settlers believed that
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