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U.S. Ambassador speaks on military base in Peru & effects of U.S. financial crisis

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Israel J. Ruiz

In an interview with the U.S. Ambassador to Peru, Peter Michael McKinley, El Comercio's Mariella Balbi asked the diplomat to comment on a series of domestic and international issues, including the U.S. financial crisis, its effects on Peru and a U.S. military base in the Andean country.

When asked how the U.S. financial crisis had begun, the U.S. Ambassador explained it had started with problems related to U.S. mortgages and had evolved into what it is now - the need for a $700 billion rescue plan.

He affirmed that different measures had been taken to face the crisis but that - as President Bush had stated - a more global response was needed.

Furthermore, McKinley stated the U.S. was not officially experiencing a recession, stating that while the crisis had affected financial institutions and had slowed down the economy, it was not known how deeply this would affect the country's citizens.

"The objective of the rescue plan is to keep the crisis from having an overall effect on U.S. citizens and the citizens of many other countries," said McKinley.

Stating that Latin American countries had diversified their markets and were in a good position to withstand changes in a global economy, McKinley confirmed Peru continued to grow.

"In Peru's case we've seen a growth rhythm near 9 percent, exportation to the U.S. increased over 30 percent and importation 50 percent," said the U.S. ambassador.

"It is estimated that trade between the two countries will reach $11 billion, last year it was less than $7 billion. Overall, there hasn't been an impact. There are sectors that will more or less be affected, which is normal."

After confirming that the U.S. government had no intention of establishing a military base on Peruvian soil, McKinley clarified that what was taking place in the region of Ayacucho was humanitarian aid.

With respect to protests held because of the presence of U.S. troops in the region, the diplomat stated it had been a small group and that U.S. troops had left the country after building three clinics, remodeling two schools and donating medical equipment.

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# Jason W Smith, Ph.D. says :
30 December, 2008 [ 13:51 ]

US combat troops remain in Ayacucho despite the lies of the Gringo Viceroy to the contrary and this is part of a general if childish plan to stabilize Latin America as I reported in the most recent version of Fundamentals of Historical Materialism, Boslhevism 2009 http://www.idahosmith.com, to wit:

  Socialism Unfolding in the 21^st CenturyChina and Latin America            As we shall see the World (Stalinist) Socialist Stage climaxed at the end of the last century with the collapse of Modern Revisionism in the USSR and Eastern Europe and the restoration of outright ”old fashioned” capitalism in these countries. However, (Stalinist) Socialism as a Stage survived and advanced into a new Stage in China, Vietnam-Laos and Cuba, albeit with an embarrassingly retrogressionist left-over in Korea.            Following the difficult beginnings we shall review in Chapter 13 and 14 below (The Stalinist Socialist Stage; and Bolshevism Spreads to China), China managed to pull it all together and embarked upon a massive program of industrialization and agricultural modernization which features the proletarian Party in command of a mixed economy. Since China is China – that is at least one fifth of the entire world, Socialism, (much to the chagrin of our ideological counterparts, on the payroll of the trillionaire and billionaire families that now control at least seven of the major capitalist countries), cannot be disposed of in daily propaganda. Nor, of course, in the real world of socialism vs. capitalism.            In short, World Socialism is now in an advanced Stage. What we will be calling the Second Socialist Stage (the Stage of Advanced Socialism.) Here the construction fronts of Socialism are the primary concern of the Parties in power. –And, that is to say, simply the bringing of adequate technological advance to the table. That is, something that the founders, Marx and Engels, had taken as a theoretical “given.” Nevertheless, what in practice history gave us, was its opposite - extreme technological backwardness. The greatest 20th century struggles (after those of survival) accordingly, were to achieve this technological foundation we had expected to inherit. Simultaneously, struggles to seize power have also necessarily continued unabated in the unliberated parts of the world. This being especially true in the former colonial and semi-colonial parts of the globe.            The foremost revolutionary seizure fronts are now in Latin America. Thanks to the perseverance of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, communists were in place to assist the anti-imperialist working class, small farmer and patriotic-nationalist bourgeois forces in Latin America, when they confronted the reality of what the Gringo’s had imposed upon them in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.The so-called neo-liberal model of imperialism. Furthermore, these indigenous anti-imperialist forces have formed a broad alliance in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, with Cuba. Ecuador and Brazil may join soon. The probability that they will be able to hold onto state power is quite high.            At the same time we must recognize that US imperialism has not gotten soft.
The imperialists are, as I write, inserting combat troops into Peru. Peru’s President Alan Garcia has been on the gringo payroll for all of his political life, and has most recently sold out his country to the gringo regime in exchange, I am told, for some twenty million dollars up front plus a monthly stipend of several million dollars. Thus he has given permission for the gringo regime to establish their much sought after South American military base. Now the Empire can fight against national liberation not only in Peru but throughout the continent. Of course, the civil war in Peru will be re-ignited and I predict will take on a magnitude that will make Iraq look like a Sunday school picnic. Unless patriotic Peruvian Army men take the initiative and depose the Arch-Traitor. If they don’t the Revolutionary Armed Forces will have to do it and that will take awhile.            In short, what we have now as the 21^st century begins to unfold is (1) advanced socialism in power and moving forward in the construction of the technological bases which will make its “permanence” possible and (2) revolutionary socialists in the process of seizing and/or developing power in the Latin American capitalist countries (and elsewhere). Two distinctly different things, yet intimately interrelated.  A Completed Theory            When Karl Marx and Frederick Engels met each other for the first time in Paris, in November 1842, they quickly recognized they had each, independently, come to the same general conclusions about how society evolved to its present stage (what we now call Historical Materialism). They also recognized that Marx had begun unlocking the secrets of production of the Capitalist Stage itself. In so doing he was answering the question as to why the more science and technology contributed to the ability of humans to make more things, more effectively, and cheaply, the less the people making these things actually kept for themselves. As Hegel had remarked, to paraphrase, “never did a labor-saving invention do anything other than worsen the conditions of the laborers themselves.” Marx’s theory of capitalist production was presented to the international working class movement in various forms through the 1850’s and 1860’s and culminated with the publication of Capital Volume One in 1867.The last seven years of Karl Marx’s life (1877-1883) were spent trying to extend the historical materialist theory of sociocultural evolution back into the detailed history and prehistory of mankind. Marx, in other words, had already unlocked the secrets of the Capitalist Stage and was attempting to do the same thing for the preceding stages in the social and cultural (sociocultural) evolution of humanity. Thanks especially to a century’s work, on the part of innumerable anthropologists (especially archaeologists), that task has now been completed, as this book will prove. To begin with what do we mean by unlocking the secrets of capitalist production? The Deepening General Crisis will lead to Global Collapse of the Capitalist Stage

            The current US financial crisis has multiple roots and innumerable strands. As you can see from my posting of Fidel’s letters to Lula (Parts 1 and 2 at http://groups.msn.com/JasonSmithcom See Granma for the complete series of his letters to Brazilian President Lula.) the sharpest world working class leaders have been watching this for a long time and trying to prepare friends for the coming inevitable imperialist monetary collapse. Out of the wreckage we must reconstitute civilized society. The science and mathematics of sociocultural evolution show us how to proceed.

            Yet the current crisis confronting the capitalist world is at-bottom nothing more than the same General Crisis of the Capitalist Stage that Marx wrote about from the mid-1840’s forward and explained in detail in Capital (Volume One) in 1867. Specifically, the articulation of the sub-column of investment in the next generation of machinery with the sub-column of profit under the category we call Surplus Value, in the capitalist system of productive relations, as I explain in considerable detail in the following Foreword and in Chapter 12 (The Stage of Capitalism). Finally, on this topic, don’t get confused by any ideas about “American exceptionalism.” The post World War II concentration of capital behind one global ruling capitalist class (structurally comparable to the concentration of slave stage capital under one ruling family in Egypt c. 3000 BC) – namely that of the US tiny oligarchy of trillionaires and centi-billionaires – simply delayed the inevitable until now. There is no escape for them from the laws of history. But they could make their demise very painful for the rest of us if we do not take power away from them, and soon. In the meantime the post-World War II Breton-Woods economic order is collapsing and the end of US imperialist domination has already begun and is well underway, irreversible in fact. This will make revolution easier in parts of the globe previously under total US domination such as Latin America. However, it also exposes everyone to the increasingly desperate tactics of the US rulers who have adopted a “kick over the table” posture in the marathon poker game they are playing when their opponents hold all the cards. An excellent example being the developments in South America in the first seven months of this year. Let us return one more time to the current desperate situation confronting gringo capitalism.

            When I was an undergraduate forty years ago Monthly Review long time editor Paul Sweezy had been writing a series of editorials about the trends in US banking. Namely, the greedy trend of loaning increasing amounts of a bank’s reserve capital, leaving less and less behind for possible losses and subsequent write downs. That tendency was simply exacerbated over the coming years until banks had virtually all of their ready cash on loan; increasingly relying upon the ultimate insurer which was the US Government (they own), which could be counted on to come to the rescue in case things went south and the banks could not call upon reserve capital they did not have. After all what choice would their Government have? Let the economy collapse?

            Since that time one after another serious financial engineering problem has been allowed to surface and become manifest. Beginning (1) with the need to ship capital abroad not just to implant the machinery (traditional imperialism) to which cheap labor could be put to work, but this time to buy all the commodities being produced in these cheap labor centers. (2) Then imperialism’s need to back-up its international hegemony with military force led to a still greater outlay of cash in non-productive ways, thus to larger budgetary deficits for the US oligarchy; which could not force the public to swallow this bitter medicine – they had to lie to our people and trick them into allowing these military expenditures to occur and lie again to justify the financing to be done via borrowing. (3) As foreign capitalist creditors became increasingly wary of US financial engineering policies and began to look around for alternative safe investments, US engineers had increasing difficulty in borrowing the money needed to stop the bleeding; that is, to offset the cash outflow to cheap labor centers and growing budgetary deficits. (4) Then Imperialism stumbled fatally when it dropped its sheep’s clothing, showing its true wolf nature, in its war against Iraq which was in fact as much a war against capitalist Europe, Russia, and socialist China, because it was the gringo’s attempt to corner the world’s oil supply. (They failed completely and finally in this regard, and are walking away like an embarrassed dog licking its wounds after a thorough ass whipping.) Now imperialism’s vaunted military superiority is seen for what it is – mostly bullshit – propaganda designed to scare by shock and awe an unprepared and far weaker foe. Now, it is seen that standard guerilla warfare techniques can bring the great juggernaut crashing to its knees. (5) Finally, and most importantly, the world’s other capitalist classes, and the world’s working class governments have many alternatives now to the use of the US dollar as the sole international currency. (6) The US rulers and their bureaucrats have lost the confidence of their class (the 2000 families in the world who have as much money as five billion ordinary people) after having loaded them down with investment vehicles seeded with poison pills from the US subprime mortgage market. (These loans would never have been allowed to be packaged with the majority of good subprime loans if the US rulers had not been so desperate for foreign money obtained in any way.) (7) Imperialism’s many (nearly countless) recent attempts to kill Chavez and Morales and restore comprador puppet regimes in Venezuela and Bolivia have all failed miserably in the face of sophisticated revolutionary strategy and tactics The rest of the American continent, with the two noticeable exceptions of Gringolandia puppets Garcia (Peru) and Uribe (Colombia), is working its way into an anti-imperialist de facto alliance of these nations against the Empire.

            Finally, there are a multitude of structural failures coming to a head simultaneously for US imperialism’s ruling oligarchy. (8) The Real Estate and Housing Market crisis (interlinked intimately with the subprime mortgage crisis) is one. (9) The shift of US incomes from manufacturing working class incomes too far less lucrative so-called “service” jobs and everything that reduction in income for a hundred million people involves. (10) The US educational crisis closely linked to the transformation of US research from project focused individual scientist sponsored work to massive industrial style expenditures on group sponsored projects. High energy physics being a good example. Imperialism is interested in expensive science far more than inexpensive science (because that is where the ruling families make their money i.e., contracting to build these massive facilities), when what is needed might be done in a Microsoft lab (http://groups.msn.com/NewPerspectivesinPhysics). (11) European central bank purchases of US paper have been halted and it is a question in doubt as to whether they will be resumed. (12) Foreign billionaire-trillionaire and other wealthy foreign purchasers of US paper are looking elsewhere, have stopped buying US paper and it is uncertain when if ever they will resume such buying. (13) Foreign governments are increasingly unlikely to accept US demands for money to support Gringo troops on these foreign soils. (14) Debt service payments to US banks on the debt intentionally heaped on third world countries has been under attack for some time (as Fidel points out in his letters to Brazilian President Lula) and now will be placed at the bottom of the list of foreign government obligations. (15) Sales of high-tech armaments have been reduced to the level of sweetheart deals only (with corrupt buyers, as in the case of Saudi Arabia) because, internationally, US war makers find the world arms market one where competition is increasingly stiff. (16) US Corporations are cheating on profit repatriation and buying more and more stable international currencies instead (e.g., the Euro).(17) Financial alternatives for financing critical inputs (to the US financing centers in New York and satellite London) such as oil and gas, are emerging, and this reduces the amount of cash flowing back into the US.

 War and the Imminent US Monetary Collapse

            Whither the USA war policy? Can the US rulers fight their planned South American war on credit? I doubt it. Not for long anyway.

            Bankrupt regimes have fought wars before. Sometime successfully. What determines whether this is possible? The entire milieu of historical circumstance will determine which debtor bellicose governments can survive and which cannot.

            When push comes to shove the key is always whether the rulers can pay the troops, at least in food and necessities. In our case ideological conviction often carries our governments through crises that would undo oppressor governments. As in the case of the civil war in Russia (1917-1920) and even much of World War II on its main European front (the Soviet German front). Of course, we communists fight without money as an incentive, or even a possibility, when we fight revolutionary wars of national liberation and/or for socialism as in the Czarist empire, China and Cuba.

            However, capitalist governments rely on money and very material incentives to recruit (or conscription) and have to pay. Furthermore they have to pay in amounts that will be acceptable to their troops (regular and mercenary). Finally, they definitely have to pay the war contractors to produce the weaponry and munitions. For capitalist governments that is the main reason for war to begin with; that is, the desire of the capitalist families that own these governments to make exorbitant profits on war contracting.

            The US has fought the entire Iraq war on credit. (Since they borrowed the money, the half trillion they have spent so far will eventually cost another one trillion in interest.) Fundamentally, this war is one of the most important at-bottom reasons for the current desperate situation in the US economy and especially in its monetary policy. The US Regime was able to borrow the money to fight this war because of (1) its historical position left over from World War II; (2) it has hundreds of billions in cash coming in from a variety of sources; thus, so far it is bankrupt in just one of the traditional senses of the word (a prime candidate for international chapter 13 reorganization one might say); (3) the current situation is unique. It has never happened before in the history of capitalism. (4) Thus, they got away with fighting one war on credit (not to mention their other world-wide military activities also funded on credit – including Afghanistan). (5) However, international finance is not going along with any more unlimited money borrowing by the completely fiscally irresponsible Regime on the Potomac and/or its various financial components. (Three of these being (1) the central bank called The Fed [Federal Reserve bank] and its quasi-governmental financial entities [(2) like Freddie Mac and (3) Fannie Mae].) It’s not that international finance doesn’t want to go along, it’s because they cannot go along or they will go under. (I have been predicting exactly this sequence of events since 2005 – as in this, the fourth, (most recent) edition of this book which you can download free of charge at http://www.idahosmith.com Fundamentals of Historical Materialism: Bolshevism 2007.)

            For example, the recent rescue of Bear-Stearns Investment Bank cost the US central bank 25% of its capital reserves (the Central Bank is chartered at 800 billion) plus to go along with it, a gift for J.P. Morgan of 30 billion. Who knows how many more banks of this size are going to fail? (Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers immediately lined up for their share of the Fed’s reserve capital; many more leached onto the public teat since then.) –And, one must ask if a forced sale to J. P. Morgan of Bear-Stearns for $2.00 per share (down from $158 per share a year ago) is really a rescue or an in-house date rape? However, that may be, if there were just three more US investment bank failures of this size, the Fed would be out of money. We don’t know how much Lehman and Goldman Sachs have drawn down already and the Fed has notified twenty more investment banks that they can have unlimited access to Fed cash as well. Darkness at the end of the tunnel is in sight even though their capitalist Congress will authorize the Fed to print more money and issue more paper (e.g., T-Bills.) Or, the Fed can do it on its own – it is after all a capitalist institution, owned by capitalists, and it is the entity they have charged with printing money and paper (profit is private, risk is public, in Gringo quasi-governmental ventures.) Why, darkness at the end of the tunnel? Because, it’s unclear as to where you can go after this. We will find out, and the capitalist Congress will vote more money, but where is it going to get more money? Their Congress will have to borrow it, or tax it out of the working people, and in the meantime the Fed will print more T-bills and more cash and use that. Another massive devaluation will occur. The Fed can be taken down by just three more failures of the size of Bear-Stearns, in other words, and soon. The US Fed, (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are close to failing also) is close to not being able to meet its guarantees and no amount of funny-money manipulations can reverse the consequences. Our currency is approaching Reich’s Mark status. The consequences domestically and internationally will be great.

None of this takes into account the damage done to international capitalist banks by the irresponsibility and pure greed of US financial capitalists. For example, such foreign giants as Northern Rock would have failed but for British government intervention (and eventual nationalization); who will be next? This damage done by the failure of the US establishment to live up to their oft-boasted honest capital formation market regulation is a rather cruel joke at this point. I have just received word that Pasadena based Indymac Bank has failed and will be taken over this weekend by the Fed.

            Directly related to all this is the US small unit trouble-making strategy (the Annapolis Doctrine we saw in action with the recent killing of two of FARC’s leaders). However, this strategy I think is also doomed to failure. Because this time the gringos are up against, Fidel and Raul, Chavez, Ortega, Morales and Correa; all of whom know what the US is and how to fight it. The US rulers are using there “new” strategy now because they have no choice, not because they think it is the best way to impose imperialism’s will on the rest of the world. This supposedly new “Annapolis Doctrine” was tried out fifty years ago when Eisenhower, and then the Kennedy’s, decided to try using Army Green Beret’s and Marine Raiders as Special Forces detached to do exactly the kind of thing they are trying now in their “new” strategy in Colombia and Peru. The US rulers and their flunkeys have no choice because their government is broke. –And, this brings us back to the current US financial quicksand. Not to mention that US troops in Ayacucho are going to be left in the lurch, undersupplied and under supported, in a quicksand of their own. Their only hope is for quick withdrawal.

 Quicksand

Actually, the US financial situation is worse than broke – it has an outstanding debt in excess of 9.5 trillion dollars – which means that if every citizen sold everything they own including the shirts on their backs they could not now come close to paying this debt. Furthermore, this debt is increasing by many billions monthly. For practical purposes this debt will never be paid. Investing billionaire and trillionaire families from Arabia, Asia, and elsewhere, have been willing to settle for timely interest payments, but the ability of the US Regime and its central bank to keep that up is now in question. Failure will, of course, mean the end of the post-World War II global economic order.

The US trillionaire centi-billionaire oligarchy cannot get out of this by paying in dollars worth a fraction of what they were worth when they were borrowed - this will not do either. A new non-US international currency may result. Or, a second US currency (one domestic and the existing one converted to solely “international” status.) Either way, the US place in the world will shrink accordingly. A new world order absent US domination is about to emerge. Not exactly what the “neo-cons” told people to expect as a result of their policy of world conquest.

Our solution is obvious. We would seize all of the assets of the 2000 families without compensation and outlaw any debts to them. End of problem but also end of system – the end of the capitalist system. That is obviously the working class solution to the problem.

            Because the CPUSA is not yet strong enough to mount this serious challenge to the oppressive Regime on the Potomac, the US ruling families and their foreign comprador allies (e.g., Bush and Saudi families) will recover from their current crisis. But, will they be able to maintain their pace of aggression against the rest of the world? I doubt this also. They don’t have the material wherewithal to use against the rest of the world any longer, because they don’t have the money to pay for military equipment, deployment (US soldiers require huge amounts of supply on an hourly basis; gas and diesel not to mention uranium are expensive for planes, tanks and ships, respectively) nor troops. They can phony up with promises, as they have been doing for decades, but that is not likely to work much longer, given the new US “deadbeat” reputation among international bankers.

            The financial inability of the USA to pursue its world aggression policy means that there is going to be a temporary stalemate once again in the world-wide struggle of labor against capital. For Latin America this means a brief respite (of a few months), if you will, from the danger of massive US intervention, and a shift to preparing for gringo aggression on a localized basis; Imperial attacks coming in the form of small unit assaults (e.g., the Ecuador probe; the current occupation of Ayacucho, Peru) and civil disorder organizing (e.g., right-wing student demonstrations; and mafia-union strikes in Venezuela) and getting their new 4^th nuclear Fleet into position. It means the ALBA nations have a short period of time to catch their breath and get ready. However, desperation will lead to a US massive assault on South America eventually. This is inevitable. Unless, the US working class takes power at home. Getting ready for Latin America means (1) getting rid of the rightist agitators and organizers on university campuses; (2) cleansing unions of their mafia components; (3) deploying ALBA air arms to secret SAM protected air-strips; (4) stepping up the popular revolution at home winning new and larger numbers of people to our side, especially the newly empowered would-be small proprietor farmers. –And with regard to Latin American farmers, as you will learn in this book, these are historically the same kind of capitalist farmers who traditionally have provided the cannon fodder for armed struggle against Reactionary regimes, as farmers did in the English Civil War, the North American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars, the Russian Civil War (with its five million man Bolshevik Red Army almost all of whom were at the end, would be, small capitalist farmers); the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army; the Cuban Army (see Chapters 12, 13 and 14 in this book.) (5) Continuing the massive investment in industrialization of the ALBA nations to provide the now essential industrial base for combating gringo imperialism. (6) Stepping up the pace of trans-Continental transportation system construction (rivers, rail, and road) to support economic and, now as importantly, military integration of the South American continent. (7) Introducing military conscription for all citizens as part of building up the people’s armies in the ALBA nations, which we will need not only against imperialism but against counter-revolutionary forces at home.

            These are relatively simple steps to take in the preparation for imperialist death-throe attacks on the ALBA countries. Relatively simple, at least, compared to the problems now confronting the Empire. The Empire is highly dangerous still, given its offshore Carrier Death Stars, however, the Rebel Alliance of ALBA nations is also powerful and fortunately much more intelligent militarily. As in Star Wars the Rebels can win!

 US Infrastructural-Industrial Decline

            There are virtually no savings in the hands of the US population. There is no money in savings with the US Government either (quite the opposite: a nine point five trillion dollar debt climbing by hundreds of millions daily.) Furthermore, the US government is quickly running out of credit. Consequently, a huge percentage of the US industrial-infrastructure is owned by foreign trillionaire capitalist families who have no interest in anything other than more profit for themselves.

            Investment in research and development in science and industry is at an all time low in the US according to a broad spectrum of measuring tools. Beginning on the left side of that spectrum we see the US educational system failing across the board to produce sufficient numbers of competent students in the key areas of scientific, engineering and technical education for vocation and profession. Now Tsinghua University is the number one feeder of candidates into the US Ph.D. system. Moving on toward the right side of that spectrum we see a steady fleeing from the US of the educated population, running to foreign lands to the tune of a quarter of a million, highly educated people, emigrating every year. New tools and technology require heavy investments in R&D, and in the US this has never happened in the Oil and Gas industry, and this is the reason why the Schlumberger family still has a de facto world monopoly on deep and ultra-deep well logging and associated work (this has made the Schlumberger family the wealthiest family in France.)  US petroleum capitalists having successfully abandoned the path of investment in science and technology has convinced other North American capitalist enterprises to do the same thing. Consequently we have a technically backward industrial-infrastructural mode of production when compared to the other advanced capitalist countries.

            The drumbeat dismantling of US industrial might and its subsequent shipment abroad (or the junkyard) is a fact of life after over a half century of imperialist policy aimed at sending machinery (constant capital) and expertise to cheap labor centers. The US ruling oligarchy in its incredible insatiable greed has refused to invest anything other than the most minimal maintenance into the infrastructural grid of roads, railroads, electrical power grids and natural gas pipeline systems.

            What about the next crisis the US rulers confront? Will we be ready? If not the mass rebellion coming out of the inevitable coming collapse may take on a fascist turn rather than a communist one, and then we will have one final hell-of-mess world war! The sad part of this will be, if it happens, that it is unnecessary. We have the science of society and culture and its evolution as our virtual sole property. Let’s use it. (This book for example, http://www.idahosmith.com for this 4^th edition of Fundamentals of Historical Materialism, Bolshevism 2008)

The bell is tolling in the US. We will step up to the challenge. The US Marxist-Leninist Left, under the leadership of the CPUSA can get us to a revolutionary situation if we are willing to work for it! To paraphrase Jimmy Doolittle, “victory belongs to those who believe in it the most. It belongs to those who want it the most. It belongs to those who will sacrifice everything for it.” (See the movie Pearl Harbor.)

            The time is ripe for a revolutionary upsurge. However, we in the Marxist-Leninist Left in the USA are not yet strong enough to mount a serious challenge to the US ruling oligarchy so it will be given a chance, this time, to do as it likes during 2008, to rescue its system. The good news is that we can build the CPUSA to do the job of leading our people to salvation.

# Cesar says :
12 February, 2009 [ 22:01 ]

I would be glad this base to be installed in Peru, so we can use it to terminate with the remainings of the communist guerrillas, bands of narcs, and also monitor comunist trouble-supporters from Bolivia and keep an eye on Chile. They could never touch us with a USA base here. That would save us money in military spendings.
Only people witha comunist oriented / anti capitalist / anti free market mentality like Humalistas or their friends would opose all this.

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