The project of a world Communist organisation was thus at one and the same time the continuation of the project of Marx, Engels and the early Communists, a product of the painful experience of the Second 4 Accessed 4 January 2023 12 Valdai Discussion Club Report May 2023 International, and a Siamese twin of the USSR. [...] It is therefore timely, in parallel with the re-examination of the USSR, to reconsider the ideal of a mass worldwide organisation, or organisations, dedicated to the class interests of the propertyless people of the world and including, in this commitment, the interests of its oppressed nations. [...] A peaceful and just future requires a thoroughgoing reorganisation of the economic foundation of the societies of the West, currently based on the increasingly unproductive pursuit of profi t and imperial rent, at the expense of the rights of their peoples. [...] Any party wishing to join the Third International must ruthlessly expose the colonial machinations of the imperialists of its “own” country, must support—in deed, not merely in word—every colonial liberation movement, demand the expulsion of its compatriot imperialists from the colonies, inculcate in the hearts of the workers of its own country an attitude of true brotherhood with the working popu. [...] The United States of America endeavours to assume supreme and exclusive right of exploiting and ruling the entire New World, while Great Britain has annexed to its empire practically the entire continents of Asia and Africa … the control of world fi nance, which has been for a century the monopoly of the British capitalists, [has] been to a great extent transferred to the hands of the American cap.
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