Imperialism & Revolution

In this brilliant and penetrating survey of the contemporary world struggle David Horowitz argues that the shape of this
struggle is largely determined by the fate of the Revolution in Russia and the rise of the United States to replace England as
the dominant capitalist world power. In a carefully structured analysis he examines developments in the backward states and
in the advanced capitalist systems. He concludes that we are on the threshold of a new revolutionary epoch, symbolized by
the transformed image of the United States of America, now increasingly challenged by the revolutionary forces in •
the world and by its own exploited minorities. Against this mounting wave of international class war the United States
defends itself and its weaker capitalist partners by massively mobilizing its economic resources and by forming a world-spanning structure of counter- insurgency, of which the CIA is the lynch-pin. Because of this, Horowitz contends, more than ever before to live under capitalism is to live on borrowed time. Liberation is no longer a national concern, it is international; and the only route to its achievement, the author urges, is by way of the socialist revolution.