Part 008 - PAMPHLET 037 008

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As a result of capital being internationalized and of world imperialism having realigned itself, centring on US imperi- alism, capitalism has survived its imminent doom and made rapid economic and technical progress. Since the end of the second world war the imperialists have not only aligned themselves with each other politically, economically and militarily, but also evolved more cunning techniques of domination and crafty methods of plunder. This is also an important feature of contemporary imperialism. The imperialists could not help being extremely alarmed at the rapidly-growing socialist forces and the upsurge of the working-class movement and national-liberation movement in the colonies. That is why they have devised new and more cunning techniques of ruling and crafty methods of plunder- ing to weaken the influence of socialism and appease the working-class movement and national-liberation movement in the colonies. The imperialists were keenly aware of the fact that they would not be able to maintain the capitalist system unless the working-class movement in their own countries was under- mined, so they brought up large numbers of labour aris- tocrats, while striving to conceal capitalist exploitation and to subdue the resistance of the working masses through un- employment and poverty. The imperialists also had to change the method of plundering their colonies. Imperialism has always existed by exploiting and plundering colonies. As a result of the second world war, the national-liberation movement gained un- precedented momentum and the colonial system crumbled. This was a fatal blow to imperialism. The imperialists resorted to the crafty method of neocolonialism to regain their lost 4