Belarusian Republican Organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | L.E. Shkolnikov
Imperialism, completely subject to the law of constant profit and super-profit, exists from two main sources. In the first place, the monopolies, which constitute the essence of imperialism, seek to extort profits to the utmost from the exploitation of the proletariat of their home countries, often withdrawing not only the surplus, but also the necessary product of its labor, and thereby giving rise to inevitable crises of “overproduction”.
The second mandatory source is the exploitation of natural, man-made and human resources abroad. The competition between the monopolies from the possession of this source gives rise to the inevitable interstate wars, the systemic crises of imperialism.
If in Lenin’s time such wars were waged by national monopolies, up to a world war, aiming at the possession of the whole world. Now such a war is generated by the first monopoly that has grown to fascism after the Second World War – the Anglo-Saxon world financial oligarchy, based in the USA, Canada, Great Britain and surrounded by numerous satellites – from the EU states to Australia, South Korea and Japan.
It is no secret that since the middle of the twentieth century, humanity has entered a period of globalization as a progressive process of accelerated, widespread and comprehensive unity based on the achievements of scientific and technological progress. This process, if given space, promises humanity a solution to all problems without exception. But in the context of globalization, global monopolies have also become dominant, first of all, various detachments of the global financial oligarchy. They compete with each other for dominance in the world, and one of them, the Anglo-Saxon, directly hinders the global process of unity, resorting to economic blockades, to a policy of separation in order to rule, to an arms race and destructive wars.
The peculiarity of today’s moment is precisely the fact that the first Anglo-Saxon world financial oligarchy, which has broken through to domination of the world since 1945, is trying to maintain the achieved dominance in the world by starting an active economic, informational, psychological and military expansion for this purpose. But by virtue of the operation of such objective laws of capitalism as the laws of uneven development of capital and its constant concentration, other world monopolies, financial oligarchies, naturally opposed to this expansion, have arisen. So the world creeps into the Third World War.
This is where a new factor arises in the anti-imperialist struggle: if any previous war unleashed by imperialism led to colossal casualties and destruction, but did not raise the question of the existence of humanity, then the Third World War raises such a question: human civilization can cease to exist in the agony demonstrated as early as 1945 by the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The matter is aggravated by the fact that the Anglo-Saxon detachment of the world financial oligarchy after the Second World War was the first to go the way to fascism inevitable for imperialism and is actually free from the checks of terrorism, at least in international politics, as well as the fact that, unlike the previous, defeated contender for world hegemony – European fascism led by Nazi Germany – the Anglo-Saxon detachment of the world financial oligarchy owns weapons of mass destruction.
Some broad notions that the presence of weapons of mass destruction on all warring parties supposedly will not allow them to be used are naïve and cultivated only in order to justify a further nuclear arms race as a supposedly panacea for war, as well as to prevent a ban on the development, production, storage and use of nuclear weapons and their elimination. Nuclear weapons will not be used only in one case – if they are eliminated under strict international control.
And if so, then humanity faced a dilemma: the first choice is to put an end to the dominance of the neo-fascist Anglo-Saxon world financial oligarchy, which questioned the existence of civilization. The second choice is to disappear historically, if this neo-fascist Anglo-Saxon world financial oligarchy is allowed to unleash a full-scale Third World War with the use of nuclear weapons.
Two tactical conclusions emerge from this dilemma:
1. In order to put an end to modern “democratic” fascism carried out by the Anglo-Saxon world financial oligarchy and its satellites, it is necessary to form the broadest anti-imperialist, anti-fascist front. A typical example of Stalin’s victorious tactics is the involvement of the states of “democratic” imperialism – the United States and Great Britain – in the anti-fascist anti-Hitler coalition. German Nazism was the main enemy of the working people and all mankind, and it was defeated by the USSR with the assistance of everything else anti-fascist that was in the world. Today, the main enemy of humanity, even more dangerous than Hitler’s fascism, is the “democratic” neo-fascism performed by the Anglo-Saxon world financial oligarchy, since it owns weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, a special responsibility falls on the peoples of the aggressor states, from their ability to mobilize and organize to eliminate their fascist regimes.
2. The struggle for peace against the aggression of the Anglo-Saxon world financial oligarchy should be raised to a universal demand, since curbing its aggression will stop the danger of the death of mankind in a nuclear cataclysm and exclude the second of the above sources of its profits and superprofits – armed expansion – thereby destroying it.
Thus, the situation dictates the direction of the main blow for the salvation of humanity – against the neo-fascist aggression of the Anglo-Saxon detachment of the world financial oligarchy, and the main method in this struggle is to prevent it from unleashing the Third World War with the use of weapons of mass destruction.
Against the background of this analysis, the opportunism of those, including those who consider themselves to be communists, who in the current world conflict demand equal opposition to all its imperialist participants, is clear. This is intended to divert forces and means from the fight against today’s main enemy of humanity – the aggressive neo-fascist Anglo-Saxon detachment of the world financial oligarchy, which will not give either peace or social progress.
The approach outlined here requires all sane forces of the Planet to support Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, which is a rebuff to the expansion of the US-Bandera junta. It is a support to China’s intention to actually establish a one-China policy and prevent the United States from fighting for Taiwan. It is a support to the heroic efforts of the DPRK leadership in the fight against attempts by the United States and its satellites to implement their nuclear blackmail on the Korean Peninsula and in the region.
The great leader of the Soviet people, J. V. Stalin, correctly asserted that as long as imperialism exists, there is also the danger of war. But he did not admit the fatal inevitability of such a war, declaring that if the peoples of the world took the cause of peace into their own hands and defended it to the end, then peace would be preserved and consolidated.
And our task is to fulfill this foresight of J. V. Stalin: the peoples of the world, everything anti-fascist that is in it, to take the cause of peace into their own hands, to build a reliable barrier to another world imperialist war and thereby doom imperialism to destruction.
