Part 010 - PAMPHLET 037 010

1 digital image

that it has become much more sly, and in the range of capitalist contradiction in that it has extended on an inter- national level beyond the bounds of individual countries. Formerly, capitalist exploitation caused the phenomenon of "the rich getting ever richer and the poor getting ever poorer" to prevail within individual capitalist countries, but now- adays this phenomenon is getting worse on a global scale with the world being divided into rich capitalist countries and poor developing countries. Today the contradictions of the capitalist world have been exacerbated still further, and imperialism finds itself in serious political and economic trouble. Because of neocolonialist exploitation and plunder by imperialists, national industries in the developing countries have further deteriorated, the people of these countries have become poorer and their foreign debts have increased as the days go by. In the developing countries the purchasing power for capitalist commodities has declined and their ability to pay foreign debts has diminished. This cannot but be a blow to the imperialist powers which have grown fat at the cost of the developing countries. The development of capitalism presupposes the expansion of markets. But as the developing countries have reached the point where they can no longer serve as commodity markets and areas of capital investment, the imperialists have found it difficult to sell their surplus goods there and have had to reduce their loans to them gradually. This has not only placed the developing countries in a more difficult economic situ- ation but also compelled the developed capitalist countries to limit their production. The developed countries are now fighting among themselves to make each other restrict production. Since in capitalist countries technology continues 6