Is the Political Committee Revising Our Understanding of U.S. Imperialisms Role?
Points 2 and 3 of Comrade Dowsons critique accuse the Political Committee of “revising our basic understanding of the role of U.S. imperialismthe dominant and overriding power both on the world scale and in relationship to all other imperialist powers.” Comrade Dowson will have to spell out this concept of the role of U.S. imperialism, so we can see if theres a difference here. The Political Committee resolution states its disagreement with the view of the 1968 resolution, which sees all other imperialist powers, from Canada to Japan to West Germany, as “weak, declining, subservient, compliant junior partners of Wall Street.” That view is wrong, and has been amply proven wrong by events of the past years. Comrade Dowson has said that some parts of the 1968 resolution need updating; he might specify whether he agrees this is one of them. His critique continues by quoting Trotsky in 1928 to the effect that U.S. imperialism tries to solve its economic problems at the expense of other impe
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