But every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The ideologues of U.S. imperialism were able to use this conflict to blind tens of millions of people here and around the world to the nature of the system that afflicts the human race, globalized transnational capitalism. Pardoxically, the end of the Cold War has lifted those blinders. Now hundreds of millions of people around the world see clearly that monopoly capitalism is the source of poverty, unemployment, war, racism and threats to the environment. Yes, we mourn the temporary setback suffered by the people of the former Soviet Union, but we enter the new century with confidence that the class struggle is alive and well.
Socialism is the next and necessary stage of human development.
Our job in the new century will be to build these powerful democratic coalitions and win people to a mass Communist Party USA and a mass circulation People's Weekly World.