We do not want to promote passivity. We have to show first that the imperialists are united in grabbing all of the resources in the Third World and in subduing the working class in the metropolitan imperialist countries. We have to rely on the masses to overthrow them. Two swift changes in the world situation have made all this happen. First, the productive forces of capitalist society, driven by the scientific-technological revolution, have outgrown the existing market relations, which are restricted by the growth of the independence movements and the struggles for sovereignty.
Every day there are rebellions by oppressed people against the rule of monopoly.
The imperialists have to reorganize, contain these struggles, and if necessary crush them. Second is the absence of the USSR and China from the anti-imperialist struggle. Their presence restrained the imperialists, who felt threatened not merely by their military might but by their political power to stimulate progressive, anti-imperialist struggles and give the imperialists cause to think twice. What restrained Eisenhower in 1958 When the Iraqi Revolution broke out in 1958, the Eisenhower administration was ready to send a carrier to the Gulf and intervene. It was of course the revolutionary struggle there first and foremost that stopped them.