Multidimensional and complex nature and effects of imperialism on

democracy, society, nature, and human nature (Updated3)

First posted on March 29, 2015, on http://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com

By Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Completed January 27, 2012

“At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man seems to become enslaved to other

men or to his own infamy. Even the pure light of science seems unable to shine but on the

dark background of ignorance. All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing

material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.” Karl

Marx. Selected Works, Vol. 1, p. 500. “That hideous pagan idol (imperialism), who would

not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.” Karl Marx. On Colonialism, Moscow

Publication, 1968, p. 87. “The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that

has no national boundaries. The bestiality of Hitler’s armies is like the North American

bestiality, like that of the Belgian paratroopers and that of the French imperialists in Algeria.

For, it is the very essence of imperialism to turn men into wild, bloodthirsty animals

determined to slaughter, kill, murder and destroy the very last vestige of the image of the

revolutionary or the partisan in any regime that they crush under their boots because it fights

for freedom.” Che Guevara. 1964 Speech at the United Nations.

A note on the background of this paper

This paper was posted on January 29, 2012, on this site, and shortly afterwards on www.

Dandelionsalad.wordpress.com. Author has added important new contents into the original

version. As this article continues to get a lot of hits from numerous countries, the updated

version with the added contents is being reposted. Any sites that had posted the original

version are requested to update it too.

Summary

The nature and effects of imperialism are extremely complex, diverse, and multidimensional,

including, among others, those on democracy; society; culture; ideology, mass psychology,

and philosophy; productive forces; nature; and human nature. Starting with Karl Marx and

Frederick Engels, numerous Marxists and Leninists contributed their insights and analyses of

many of these. The most original and profound of these were those of V. I. Lenin, who was

gifted with the extraordinary intellectual abilities to hit the nails on the head in diverse areas

of extreme complexity.

After the betrayal of socialism in the former USSR, Peoples Republic of China (PRC), and

Eastern Europe, it has gone out of fashion to even mention imperialism, much less engage in

any in-depth analyses of contemporary world reality and events that are being shaped and

generated predominantly by imperialism. Even Russia and PRC have now become capitalist

countries and have joined the inter-capitalist and inter-imperialist competition for the

planet’s resources and markets. Of course, the godfather and coordinator of all imperialism

continues to be the US. Never before in human history, there was such a conglomeration and

proliferation of imperialist and wannabe imperialist countries. And yet, with very rare

exceptions, the intellectual resources on this greatest problem and danger of all history to

mankind, human nature, democracy, culture, other forms of life, and biosphere, have dried

up at a time when these are needed most.

The most sinister dimension of imperialism (advanced capitalism) has been related to its

effects on the human nature itself. However, it has remained, by and large, in the dark, even

though, its symptoms are gigantic and everywhere. This author wrote two papers in the

1980s-one of them published in an interdisciplinary scientific journal in the US-to initiate

efforts to fill this gap and address this deficiency (1, 2). Both these papers contained a new

and original macro-level interdisciplinary theory on the biosocial regulation of human nature

by the combined and intertwined social forces of advanced capitalism, technocracy, and

culture, and showed the historical causal connections between these forces and the plague of

one-sided advanced capitalist-technocratic civilization, which has been devastating both the

ecology of nature and the inner ecology of human nature, the Human Soul-source of the

spiritual-emotional parts-being its greatest casualty. Human Reason also underwent extreme

reductionisms and is now reduced to capitalist-technological rationality, under the above

civilization. This is indeed a most sinister development, as it distorts, perverts, and deforms

both the Human Soul and the Human Reason.

In the Advanced Capitalist-Imperialist Technocratic Civilization, the Human Reason is

progressively transformed into Capitalist-Technological Rationality, among scientists,

technicians, various types of capitalists, politico-economic leaders, and overwhelming

majority of the populations. It becomes the dominant faculty in the mass mental apparatus,

on the expense of various other human faculties, especially those that are connected with

and are expressions of the Human Soul. Fragmented and abstracted from the Human Soul,

and compartmentalized, the Capitalist-Technological Rationality increasingly serves and

empowers capitalist-imperialist injustice, inequality, exploitation, aggression, domination,

brutality, selfishness, big and small lies, hypocrisy, etc.,-in a word, Evil-both on the national

and international levels. On the international level, this is frequently manifested in brutal,

atrocious, and unjust imperialist wars and conflicts. The Advanced Capitalist-Technological

Rationality becomes increasingly transformed into Sinister Insanity, which is also exported to

rest of world.

Many of these phenomena and processes are occurring on the mass psychological, cultural,

and epigenetic levels. During 1980, I had developed and published a new and original theory

on some of these, which can be read by clicking on the following link:

https://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/effects-of-the-

contemporary-technological-model-on-the-genetic-regulation-of-inner-human-faculties-by-

fazal-rahman-ph-d/

As expected, the author’s above papers have been condemned to remain in the darkness by

the priests and high priests of the Advanced Capitalist-Technocratic Civilization-and the

masses under their influence-which are all in a diabolical frenzy to incessantly worship

Capital, Technocracy, Things, and Power-constantly mutilating their own human nature in

that process-in the most sinister rush towards the Great Abyss in history.

Among other contents, some general laws of interactions between imperialism, democracy,

and human nature have also been proposed in this article.

Dual nature of US politico-economic system: capitalist democracy and

imperialism

It is of paramount importance to understand the real nature of US politico-economic system

in order to understand its national and international realities. Domestically, the system

constitutes a form of capitalist democracy, mostly defined in terms of holding regular

elections after definite periods of time. To go into the numerous flaws and erosions of this

form of democracy in the US is beyond the scope of this paper. Suffice it to say here that this

democracy has been evolving into a demonocracy in its interactions with its international

counterpart, i-e., imperialism. Nothing has deformed and eroded the domestic democracy in

the US more than its international imperialism. During 1986, this author had presented a

new theory on this subject at the Pacific Northwest Marxist Scholars Conference in Seattle,

under the title, “Some aspects of the developing dialectic of US capitalist democracy and

international imperialism” (3), in which he had elaborated on this subject in some detail and

also shown that US imperialism frequently transformed into fascism in many countries, as it

was the godfather of numerous fascist dictatorships throughout the world in the post Second

World War period. He also hypothesized that the dialectics of national capitalist democracy

and international imperialism and fascism would eventually lead to national fascism too. This

is still a transitory and rather obscure stage but the events and facts seem to be leading in

that direction.

The US politico-economic system has been demonocratic throughout its history for the

peoples of the Third World, starting with the genocide of Native Americans and theft and

colonization of their country. Its crimes and sins against humanity are too many to list or

discuss here. But it is self-evident that billions of human beings have suffered incalculable

damages, deprivations, repressions, mass murders, plunders and theft of their resources, and

the loss of the best among them, as a direct result of the policies, actions, conspiracies, and

crimes of this godfather of all imperialism and fascism in the world. They have done all that

wearing the formal “democratic” masks and cloaks. If that is democracy then Hell is

Paradise. This system also has been demonocratic towards the minorities here, at its center,

which have been, and continue to be, subjected to demonic levels and types of racist

discrimination and oppression. These minorities here are people from the same Third World

countries that have suffered its imperialism and fascism internationally. Throughout its

history, the real heroes of the Third World were demonized and targeted for destruction by

US imperialism while the traitors were elevated and inflated to the status of heroes. Total

and absolute perversion! They continued, and continue, to claim without even batting an

eye, that their policies and actions would lead to progress and advancement of democracy in

the victimized nations! US imperialists developed such sinister hypocrisy, deceptions, and

lies to new heights under the Bush and his Oil-Military-Industrial-Complex (OMIC) gang. The

current Obama administration has not only continued the imperialist policies and actions of

the Bush administration, but has vastly expanded them.

All the imperialist countries have had a predatory history. However, in the aftermath of the

Second World War, many of them substituted non-militarist politico-economic methods for

achieving their objectives in the Third World. US has been an exception in this regard and

since the Second World War, it has unleashed and sponsored countless military conflicts,

interventions, and disruptions of independent politico-economic development in numerous

countries throughout the world. It has wreaked havoc throughout the world and devastated

and extinguished the lives of countless human beings, including many who were the best and

highest expressions of human nature. Presently, it is engaged in three major invasions and

wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya. Many of the NATO countries have also

reverted back to the militarist forms of imperialism.

The most repressive, anti-democratic, and humiliating rule in any country is that of a foreign

occupying imperialist and colonialist power. One would have thought that in the

21st Century, everyone understood that truism. However, it is shocking to learn that US

government and its tens of millions of followers in the most “developed” nation of this world

– following in the footsteps of their ancestors who “liberated” Native Americans, Filipinos,

Hawaiians, and Africans in slavery – still think it is possible to fool people by calling things by

their opposite names. Their ancestors were using the Orwellian language long before George

Orwell wrote his 1984 and Aldus Huxley his Brave New World. They think that when they are

based on such enormous military and economic power as that of the US, they have the power

to present mental retardation as wisdom; colonialism, neo-colonialism, and imperialism as

liberation; theft, plunder, and robbery as generosity and giving away aid; high-tech mass

murders as humanity; and demonocracy as democracy. They think and act like that as they

know that they can not only get away with it, but will be rewarded for that. One wonders

about the vastness of contempt they must have for the intelligence and integrity of American

people! One also wonders whether that contempt is well deserved! Imperialism has always

been the greatest enemy of democracy in the Third World periphery, as well as in the

imperialist center. The history of imperialism is overflowing with establishment of the most

brutal dictatorships and puppet client regimes in the Third World by the Western imperialist

nations. In the second half of the last Century, US became the godfather of all imperialisms

and has developed the art and science of blocking and crushing the independent national

development and national liberation movements of the developing countries – as well as of

overthrowing and replacing the national liberationist and democratic governments with

puppet and client regimes – to unmatchable heights.

In the imperialist center itself also, imperialism has been the greatest enemy of democracy, in

spite of some superfluous appearances and contradictions. For example, in the US, American

people have been treated to constant bombardment of lies, hypocrisies, deceptions,

secrecies and disinformation by their leaders to cover up and misrepresent their international

imperialist operations. Consenting to such lies, hypocrisies, and deceptions of the

“democratic” government- some of them of extremely sinister and evil nature-by the general

populace, destroys the very essence of democracy, which consists of people consenting to

policies and actions based upon facts, truth, and honesty. As is self-evident, the erosion of

democracy in the US has greatly accelerated in the current structural crisis of imperialism and

capitalism. The dialectical interactions between imperialism and democracy in the advanced

capitalist societies play the most powerful role in the development and evolution of these,

both at the center as well as in the periphery. These play particularly powerful role in case of

the US, which is, by far, the most powerful, militarist, aggressive, conceited, and deceptive

imperialism of all history. Because of its power and its nature, it is wreaking havoc with

genuine democracy everywhere, at its center, in the periphery, in other imperialist countries,

and in socialist societies. It is the most powerful distortion, perversion, erosion,

militarization, and imperialismization of democracy – everywhere, all over this planet. A

more sinister, evil, and antidemocratic force is hardly imaginable.

The reality of democracy is eroded in such a context even if the mechanical formalities and

appearances are maintained. As is self-evident, even the formalities and appearances of

democracy are being greatly eroded at this stage of the development of US imperialism-

democracy complex. US imperialism-democracy system has been routinely transformed into

fascism in various developing countries, e.g., Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala,

Honduras, Ecuador, Zaire, Philippines, Iran, Indonesia, El Salvador etc. etc. under various

dictatorships in the service of US imperialism and its big capital. The chickens are coming

home to roost now and the transition to the uniquely American form of fascism has already

begun at the center. Internationally also, the fascist nature of US imperialism is becoming

transparent more than ever. The so-called “war on terrorism” and wars on Iraq, Afghanistan,

and Libya are manifestations of the naked fascism of US imperialism. These are the self-

evident expressions of the most brutal, most plunderous, and most mass murderous

domination of rich oil, natural gas, and other resources of Iraq, Central Asia and Caspian Sea,

and Libya, on behalf of the giant US oil and military-industrial transnational corporations by

the US government and military. Some leftovers may be thrown into the bowls of the

corporations of NATO countries too for their participation in this imperialist-fascist plunder.

Effects on American people

The fundamental responsibility of American people for this state of affairs is

undeniable. They have always elected the representatives of the capitalist-imperialist class

to the highest offices of the government and congress and supported the main directions of

their foreign and domestic policies and actions. So far, the worst brutalities, sufferings, and

deprivations of these policies and actions have been inflicted on hundreds of millions of Third

World peoples and the minorities within the US. However, as a result of the historical

additive accumulation of diverse economic and other problems that have been generated by

these policies and actions, a grave all-round structural crisis of the system-with the economic

crisis at its center-, and the society it has produced, is now accelerating rapidly in its

development, and victimizing major parts of the population within the imperialist center

itself that were complacent with, subservient to, and instruments of the ruling imperialist-

capitalist class. That is the essence of the origins of the so-called Occupy Protests. The

current crisis has very long historical and structural roots and must be understood within that

context. It is a continuation of innumerable and diverse crises of variable magnitudes and

natures, which have been accumulating, developing, and merging into each other for decades

and centuries, and are now revealing themselves and exploding uncontrollably. The pundits

and wannabe pundits of almost all the political ideologies, academics, economists, and

intellectuals have, by and large, resorted to reductionist and abstract approaches in their

analyses and discussions of this most complex all-round crisis that has developed in the

history of advanced capitalism. They have failed to see, much less comprehend, the real

concrete historical nature of this crisis. Hence, all their proposed or imagined analyses,

solutions, and predictions are bound to fail.

Related to above, one of the most important questions is: What is wrong with the American

people? Part of the answer to this question is that the advanced capitalist-technocratic

system and its leaders are also responsible for the deformation of the human nature of great

majority of American people. They have, by now, inflicted deep and severe damages on the

human nature of great majority of American people, making them incapable of seeing or

feeling even the simplest of facts and truth or of speaking clearly about them. The

manufacture of mass false consciousness and mass psychology by the politico-ideological

factories in the US is the most frightening nightmare that comes true and manifests itself over

and over again in various parts of the Third World. It is now also returning home with a

vengeance.

All these facts are apodictic. However, these are most shamelessly denied by the swarms of

intellectual prostitutes and brainwashed and disinformed officials of all the institutions of

this society. Exceptions are very rare in this regard. It makes one sick to death to see such

great uniformity and self-righteousness in evil, denial of reality, injustice, lies, and corruption

of the spirit and intellect. How can the people, who are so advanced in science and

technology, be so maldeveloped in their human nature? This author analyzed this matter in

some depth in two of his papers (1, 2). In these papers, he synthesized knowledge and

information in various areas of social and biological sciences and developed a new

comprehensive theory of formation, changes, and biosocial regulation of human nature

under the powerful forces of different integrated complexes of social systems, cultures, and

technocracy. The contents and conclusions of this new theory are too complex and technical

to describe here. However, extremely dangerous malformations of human nature and their

causes, under the advanced capitalism-technocracy-culture complex, have been identified

and analyzed in these papers.

Successive American governments have been playing a colossal con game with the American

people. Their real agenda involves using the US armed forces, belonging to the American

people and the nation as a whole, for their private plunder of the rich natural resources of

rest of the world. Exorbitant national financial, military, human and other resources of the

US are being utilized for private profits and gains. They have been using the national armed

forces of the US as their private armies and getting away with it! How is that possible in any

genuine democracy? Just the financial costs of the war on Iraq have been estimated to be $3

trillion, coming out of the pockets of ordinary tax payers. Overwhelming majority of

American people will not gain anything from such imperialist plunder and robbery. They will

lose enormous amounts of financial resources, not to mention many of their lives, for the

private greed of the giant corporations and the rich and wealthy, which totally dominate the

US governments. Even though much of rest of the world knows exactly what the US

government is after, relatively few Americans show any awareness of it. Even if they are

aware inside, it is buried under layers and layers of diversions and rationalizations and as

such, this deeply buried and suppressed awareness is as good as none. This is the result of

prolonged brainwashing, desensitizing, and other forms of conditioning by the most powerful

propaganda and mass psychology manipulating machine in history, which have made most

Americans incapable of perceiving or feeling even the simplest of truths and facts or the most

horrible consequences of military invasions and assaults of other nations, in spite of their

leaders getting caught red-handed, repeatedly, with lying and deception in such matters. For

example, they were lied to and deceived systematically and constantly throughout the

Vietnam War, during the Gulf of Tonkin concoctions, U2 incident in the former USSR, about a

non-existing missile gap etc. etc. The history of many of these lies and deceptions is well

documented and has been well publicized. Just as a result of policies and actions, based on

such official lies and deceptions, more than 3 million Indochinese and 58,000 Americans lost

their lives during the Vietnam War, which also devastated and polluted that country

enormously and diabolically. David Wise had documented these and numerous other lies

and deceptions of the US government leaders, to which American people were subjected,

officially and systematically (4). Things have gotten much worse since then. Leaders of US

are now totally intoxicated with being the only superpower on this planet. They are now

most shamelessly and self-confidently engaged in the ruthless perversion of all values,

perverting lies into truth, evil into good, injustice into justice, war into peace, occupation and

invasion of other countries into “liberation”, etc. etc., and vice versa , ad nauseam. Much of

the American public is also trapped in a similar mass psychology.

The mentally retarded lies and deceptions, being offered as pretexts for the invasions of Iraq,

Afghanistan, and Libya can only be accepted by people who have already been brainwashed

to the state of mental retardation. No one with any intellectual and spiritual competence or

integrity can fall for them. People need to ask themselves: Is it really “patriotism” to be

accomplices in such great thefts, robberies, crimes, mass murders, lies, hypocrisies, and

deceptions, that their leaders are engaged in these countries? Is such behaviour consistent

with any religious or secular values of any kind?

The imperialist thugs and thieves at the helms of the US government are, objectively, turning

this whole nation, as well as its military forces, into thieves, robbers, mass murderers,

criminals, and sinners of the worst kind. It is not patriotism to be accomplices in this great sin

and crime. It is a great sin and crime, and distortion, perversion, evilization, and destruction

of one’s human nature, to be an accomplice in all this. True patriotism consists of opposing

such great sins and crimes with everything one has, to the best of one’s abilities. First of all,

every human being is a human being with a human nature. One cannot be a good American,

Russian, German, French, English, Chinese, Afghan, Libyan, or Iraqi with a bad, evilized,

unjust, falsified, plunderous, and poisonous human nature. Neither can one be a good

Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew, or Buddhist with these. It is self-evident that almost all the

leaders of the US politico-economic system are severely infected with the worst forms of

these and they are, in turn, infecting American people with these too. Such mass

psychological pathologies can be transmitted massively, effectively, and rapidly under

particular conditions and circumstances. For example, Hitler and Nazis were able to transmit

such mass psychological pathologies to overwhelming majority of the German population,

quite easily and rapidly. Germans were also highly “advanced” and “educated” in the fields

of science, technology, and industry.

Such distortion, perversion, and evilization of the mass psychology of Americans, by leaders

and controllers of the US politico-economic system, constitute a powerful and massive attack

on the human nature and intellectual and spiritual competence and integrity of American

people. What a price to pay for oil and other resources!!! Jesus Christ’s saying, “What is a

man profited if he has gained the whole world but lost his soul”, is most relevant to this

situation. The souls of Americans have been already greatly eroded and polluted by

successions of imperialist, deceptive, lying, plundering, conspiring, hypocritical, and mass

murderous leaders. The recent administrations are trying their best to erode whatever soul

or spiritual and intellectual competence and integrity might be left in them. This is the

greatest damage that can be done to any human being. It is even worse than dying to be

systematically evilized in one’s human nature. Seen from this most important perspective,

the worst enemies of American people have been their leaders, as they have been drastically

eroding, distorting, perverting, and destroying their souls and intellects, their human nature,

in pursuit of their private lusts for resources, profits, and power. In reality, these leaders

have been the greatest enemies of all authentic American patriotism.

Under the guise of “patriotism”, people are being conned into unquestioning support for

policies and actions of grand plunder, robbery, theft, deception, lies, atrocities, injustice,

mass murder, evil, and imperialism by the imperialist-demonocratic government. Such

“patriotism” is a great imperialist-demonocratic evil, of an extreme nature. People who

participate and support such a great evil are doing just that. They are not being patriotic in

the true sense of that much abused and manipulated word. Genuine patriotism is always

consistent with the values, policies, and actions of justice, truth, goodness, freedom, peace,

ecology, and other higher values. When patriotism is mobilized against all these higher

values, it is not patriotism but mass mobilization for injustice, evil, robbery, plunder, and

imperialism. The greatest terrorists of all history are claiming to be fighting the “war against

terrorism”! The godfather of almost all the weapons of mass destruction has been accusing

weak little Third World countries, like Iraq, Iran, and North Korea etc., of being a threat to

them and to the whole world! It is like a huge herd of elephants, which has stampeded on a

large area of the jungle, causing devastation (elephants actually do that in some parts of

Africa when they get drunk after eating fermenting fruits), accusing chipmunks to be planning

a stampede and posing the threat to the whole jungle! Such behaviour is self-evidently

bizarre. However, when the bizarre is not only empowered but is the only superpower, it can

continue stampeding successfully until the whole jungle is destroyed. As is obvious, such

superpower mental retardation can prevail over the highest of human intelligence and

wisdom, under the conditions of contemporary evilized reality of this world. And yet, they

never tire of boasting about this reality being the epitome of “civilization”, “development”,

“progress” – and above all – “democracy”!!!

Problems of abnormal and unhealthy psychology are widespread in this society, including in

its private and government organizations. Psychologists LaBier (5-8) and Maccoby (9),

among others, have done large-scale in-depth studies in this connection. LaBier found that

under the façade of surface sanity, various types of mental disorders were widespread and

that the culture and environment of many large government and private organizations

encouraged, nurtured, and rewarded sick attitudes, behaviour, motivations, and

values. Within these organizations, these are the keys to success in one’s career! National

Institute of Mental Health estimated that almost 20 percent of all Americans have a

diagnosed mental disorder, with anxiety, substance abuse, and depression being the most

common problems (10). The actual incidence of mental disorders in this society is certainly

much higher as these estimates only consist of people who have sought help from the mental

health system. There are numerous others who suffer from such disorders but have not

entered the mental health system. Estimates of people who suffer from work related

problems like stress, burnout, acute psychiatric symptoms, as well as from a broad range of

work-related values conflicts, malaise, and loss of identity, range as high as 45 percent

(11). Indubitably, such massive problems of mental health in society are basically being

produced by destructive biosocial regulation of human nature by powerful, complex and

combined socio-economico-political, cultural, and mass psychological forces of one-sided,

anti-ecological, and anti-human-nature science and technology and extremist forms of

imperialism and capitalism. And yet, knowledge and information in this area is non-

existent. This is the result of extreme forms of classist covert censorship as well as self-

censorship, which, in this society, in matters like these, work even more effectively and

powerfully than the overt and legalized censorship of some other societies.

Inter-imperialist contradictions and conflicts

After the collapse of former USSR, Russia has strived hard to join the imperialist camp. Other

major members of this camp include US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan etc. Even the

Peoples Republic of China is now going through such transformations. There is now an

unprecedented conglomeration of imperialist countries on the world stage, which is leading

to an unprecedented dangerous situation for mankind and other forms of life on the

planet. Both World War I and II were the result of inter-imperialist contradictions and

conflicts between major imperialist powers for division and redivision of the world in favour

of their economic and political interests. Such contradictions and conflicts between the

economic and military interests of the major imperialist powers flared up many times during

the prolonged Iraqi crisis. As was self-evident, control over the huge multi-trillion dollar oil

and other resources of Iraq was at stake there. Russia, France, Germany, and China had huge

multi-billion dollar contracts with the government of Saddam Hussain, either finalized or in

the process of completion. US and UK, and their giant oil and other corporations, were being

left out from these highly profitable and lucrative projects and contracts in Iraq. With their

mouths drooling with epileptic frenzy, the US and UK governments bid farewell to all

pretensions of elementary decency, ethics, international and domestic law, democracy and

democratic values, as well as all other human values, and rushed to Iraq with great means of

violence and destruction, in an uncontrollable frenzy of imperialist greed and plunder. USSR,

France, Germany, and China attempted to stop this US-UK imperialist aggression through the

UN mechanisms and the international law but failed to do so. They could only have

prevented it if they were willing to confront the aggressors militarily, either directly or

indirectly, by threatening to give military assistance to Iraq. They did neither and the US-UK

imperialist frenzy went full speed ahead. That recent history is now being repeated in Libya,

where US and NATO countries are not content with their share of the control of Libyan

energy and other resources and plan to enhance it greatly through the war and regime

change, as well as to thwart and reverse the developing economic and political independence

of the African Union countries, in which Libya, under Muammar Gadhafi, had been playing a

key role.

In the Iraqi, Libyan, and Afghanistan crises, inter-imperialist contradictions and conflicts did

not lead to war between the major imperialist powers precisely because the opposing powers

failed to confront the US and its allies in their plans and actions. However, these were, and

still are, potentially very dangerous situations for the whole world. If the other imperialist

powers chose to protect their economic interests with military force, it could have, and still

can, lead to the World War III, which will be catastrophic for all mankind and the whole

world. Even if it did not and does not happen this time, continuation of the current course of

action by the US and its collaborators will lead to it sooner or later. When there was USSR,

inter-imperialist contradictions and conflicts between the major capitalist-imperialist powers

were kept to a minimum. USSR also tried its utmost to prevent the Third World War, in spite

of numerous US provocations. Now that the USSR has collapsed and Russia and Peoples

Republic of China have become competing imperialist powers, the inter-imperialist conflicts

and contradictions are certain to increase greatly and so is the threat of Third World War.

Changing balance of forces: The emerging multipolar world

The global US imperialism has been rooted in the economic and military domination and

exploitation of rest of the world, and has been accompanied by its political multimacy, with

numerous contradictory and self-contradictory faces, for dealing with different countries and

situations. So far, on the basis of its enormous military, economic, and political powers, and

collaboration of the ruling circles of its client states, it has been able to trample over real

freedom, democracy, peoples’ most important needs and rights, truth, justice, and goodness,

everywhere on the planet, with few exceptions. Due to overwhelming and one-sided

dominance of material powers over the intellectual and spiritual powers that has been

multiplying throughout the history of Western Civilization, and especially during the past few

centuries, in which Renaissance, Enlightenment, and capitalism converged and combined to

produce a material reality-and mass psychology and culture determined by it-which has been

so powerful that it has been able to impose any irrationality, injustice, evil, and falsehood

with impunity, and any challenges to these have been automatically dismissed as unrealistic

and irrational. With a few exceptions, like Vietnam, US imperialism has been able to impose

its imperialist world order in much of the Third World, as well as in the First World. The

Second World, consisting of the former socialist countries, under the leadership of USSR and

China, successfully resisted and repelled the encroachments of US imperialism for

decades. However, the betrayal of socialism in these countries has not only made the doors

wide open to US imperialism but has turned some of the more developed of them into

imperialist countries themselves. The Second World, in its original form and essence, has

now disappeared. To be sure, new competing blocks are being formed currently, but these

are being formed within imperialism, on the basis of inter-imperialist contradictions and

conflicts, which have, so far, not developed into military conflicts. But, these are much more

dangerous than during the Cold War period, in which there were conflicts and contradictions

between capitalist and socialist countries. Both world wars were the result of inter-

imperialist conflicts and rivalries. All these colossal transformations have created a

historically unprecedented conglomeration of imperialist countries on the world stage. Inter-

imperialist balance of forces is in a state of rapid flux. US has been, economically and

militarily, the most powerful imperialist country through much of the 20th Century. However,

currently, it is gripped by an all round structural crisis that, in its essence, is much worse than

that of the Great Depression. It is losing economic competition with some of its rivals, like

China, , which is rapidly and successfully expanding its economic sphere throughout Latin

America, Asia, and Africa, replacing the US in many countries as their foremost trading

partner, as well as investing heavily in their industries and raw materials. Russia is also

following a similar pattern, though less successfully. US is now by far the biggest debtor

country in the world, with total national debt approaching $14 trillion, a great part of which is

owed to foreign creditors, like China and Japan. At the current pace of its economic

development, China will surpass the US in its economic weight, in the near future. It has

already overtaken Japan in the second position. It is also catching up militarily with the US,

although it still has a long way to go in this regard. Russia inherited the military might

developed during the Soviet era, in which a rough military parity was established with the US

led imperialist camp. It also continues to invest heavily in the modernization and innovation

of military and highly advanced weapon systems. Even though, US imperialists have been

intoxicated with being the “Sole Superpower” in the post-Soviet era, and acting as such, it is,

in fact, a dangerous and self-damaging illusion. In spite of all the noisy and boastful

propaganda, unrestrained arrogant chest-thumping, and demonic waste of huge resources,

the “Sole Superpower” has been unable to defeat even the most primitively equipped and

resource poor resistance forces in Afghanistan, in spite of gathering the military forces of fifty

other imperialist and client countries there, under the NATO command, for ten long years. It

is neither a unipolar nor bipolar world now, it is multipolar. Russia still continues to have a

rough military parity with the US and NATO. China is rapidly emerging a new rival in this

connection. The resistance in the Third World is also starting to reassert itself, after a very

difficult submissive period, in the aftermath of the betrayals by its former allies that were

socialist and supportive of national liberations and anti-imperialism yesterday but are

themselves imperialist today. This constitutes another pole of challenge to imperialism. If

and when the European Union and Japan decide to liberate themselves from the domination

of US imperialism, they will rapidly become new powerful poles. The seeming advantages of

US imperialism in having around 900 military bases around the world and its abilities to

deploy forces in distant areas are now turning into their opposites, huge disadvantages and

drains on the already collapsing economy.

History has now started moving dialectically towards the necessity of rectification of its

reversals and its forward march towards freedom, democracy, and socialism. All the

innumerable imperialist think tanks and intelligence networks are unable to grasp this great

underlying force of history and are again conspiring in every imaginable way to stop and

reroute it in the backward road to imperialism that would put to waste the great sacrifices

and energies of the revolutionary masses in this great historical revolutionary moment, in

order to maintain the status quo in its closest proximity. They are unable to comprehend that

no military or economic power can stop the forward march of history for long. It may create

the illusions and delusions of having stopped it, but these are inevitably going to be shattered

and evaporated, with devastating effects, sooner or later. History is just and rational, but its

justice and rationality develop in its own time frame, rectifying all the great injustices,

irrationalities, betrayals, arrogance, and follies of humans, rooted in the class-divided social

systems, through the human forces of historical change. What is happening in Latin America,

Afghanistan, Egypt, and Middle East is the beginning of a great process of such historical

rectification, a great historical revolutionary moment, and must be seen and understood as

such. As usual, the macro-history is being ignored almost totally by all the pundits and

experts-serving the interests of imperialism-who are trained and conditioned in micro-

history, as well as in the use of methods and concepts of operationalism and positivism, to

fragment and distort it, in order to manage and control it. For a long time, they have gotten

away with all this because they have been based in a reality dominated by the overwhelming

capitalist-technocratic powers of the imperialist system and its various institutions.

However, a new historical era is dawning upon this world, in which the deeply entrenched

centers, structures, and institutions of injustice, inequality, and domination would be torn

apart to pieces. The pseudo and anti-historical “rationality” of the imperialist system and its

innumerable pundits, academics, technocrats, and news media is now coming apart at its

seams and revealing itself for what it is and is being challenged effectively by the real

historical rationality, on the world stage. They are now surrounded by the latter but are

totally absorbed by the former, encased in it, and unable to see the latter, even though it is

all around them and engulfing them. Their pretensions of objectivity and scientism are

appearing to be the most stubborn and reified forms of solipsism. All the imperialist centers,

especially the US, are in for the greatest upheavals and tragedies in history. Unless the

masses in these centers put their politico-economic apparatuses on the right tracks and in the

right gears, these centers, intoxicated with and addicted to their military and economic

powers-developed on the basis of centuries of injustice, inequality, deceptions, genocides,

domination, and plunders-will continue rushing headlong towards the abyss, taking all the

mankind and most other forms of life with them. The political somnambulism of the working

class and masses in the godfather of all imperialisms-the US-does not give one any reasons

for optimism in this regard at this time. However, the only hope is that the historical

rationality and necessity will also assert themselves here and make possible what seems to

be impossible at the moment.

Imperialism is, and has been for a long time, the greatest problem mankind has ever faced. It

is complex and has a multidimensional nature, including among others, economic, political,

military, cultural, and mass psychological dimensions. The former three have been studied

extensively by Marxist and other intellectuals. However, the latter two have, by and large,

remained in the dark. The historically developed economic essence of US imperialism

remains the same, which consists of domination and exploitation of the natural and human

resources of rest of the world, for its capitalist class, and bribery and pacification its own

working class and population, as well as of the politico-economically powerful and important

leaders and elites of other countries, from such fabulous profits and fruits of exploitation that

are transferred to the imperialist center. In the “Free” and “Democratic” society of the US,

even the word “imperialism” is a taboo, even in the institutions of so-called “higher

learning”. In such an environment, all political analyses that violate this taboo, are

automatically banished from all public discourse. Only in a few small publications and web

sites, one finds any mention of it. It is obvious that unless innumerable problems and events,

being incessantly generated by US imperialism, are seen, understood, and related to their

basis and root causes, these cannot be even diagnosed and understood correctly, much less

solved. The basic principle is the same in this regard as in medicine. Unless the root causes

of illnesses are identified accurately, these cannot be treated. This simplest of truths appears

to be beyond the grasp of the hordes of “intellectuals” and “experts” of imperialism.

Social sciences, imperialism, and democracy

Social sciences, and especially the political science, are fundamentally flawed in the Western

capitalist countries as these omit any serious knowledge, information, or analysis of the

gigantic reality of imperialism, much less of its effects on democracy in the center or

periphery or on human nature or behaviour. This great flaw in the very foundation of these

“sciences” has retarded, distorted, perverted, and deformed their contents as well as

knowledge and information about changes in the nature of overall politico-economic system

and in the contents and forms of democracy. In the Marxist and socialist sciences, there has

been extensive discussion and analyses of imperialism. However, almost all such discussion is

focused on the international economic operations of imperialism. The area of developmental

interactions between imperialism and democracy in the imperialist center and periphery has

remained largely unexplored in these as well, even though, Lenin, had shed some light on this

matter, almost one hundred years ago.

A few writers in this country have published extremely knowledgeable, informative, and

honest analyses, exposes, and critiques of US imperialism and the flaws and decay of

democracy in the US. Among others, Michael Parenti (12, 13) has written extensively on both

these subjects, while David Wise, William Greider, and Seymour Hersh (4, 14, 15) have

documented and analyzed the various inherent problems of democracy; its decay and

erosion; the highly institutionalized cult of secrecy, deception, and lying to the public by the

government leaders and other elites etc., in great depth. In his recent writings, Parenti has

discussed the nature of US politico-economic system in terms of strong empire and weak

republic. Victor Perlo’s book, Super Profits and Crises: Modern US Capitalism (16) remains

one of the most important and informative books ever written on the political economy of US

imperialism. Also, Professor James Petras has written numerous excellent books and articles

on a great variety of subjects that are related to imperialism. He is the foremost intellectual

authority in this country, and one of the best in the world, on the Latin American political

economies and their relations to imperialism. In an article, published on his web site in

December 2008, soon after the first election of Barack Obama to the Presidency, he had

presented evidence and analyses, which showed that the greatest conman in recent history

had been elected to that office, at a time when overwhelming majority of Blacks and other

minorities, academics, news media, leftists and other progressives, and various world leaders

were ecstatic about the election of the first Black President in the United States history and

the great changes he had promised to bring about and was expected to create. Even the

Cuban and Venezuelan revolutionary leaders, Fidel Castro and the late Hugo Chavez, had such

illusions at that time. But, Professor Petras saw clearly right through him and tried to warn

everyone that they were falling for a very sleazy conman. All of his conclusions have proven

to be right ( See James Petras. A Historic Moment: The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in

Recent History. http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1766 December 6, 2008). Noam Chomsky is

another famous American writer who has written some penetrating critiques and analyses of

the American foreign and domestic policies and actions. However, some of his positions, like

his anti-Sovietism, anti-Leninism, anti-communism, and glee at the overthrow of socialism

and restoration of capitalism in the former USSR, have been extremely irrational and

bizarre. These positions, regardless of his intentions, objectively coincided with those of the

American and European imperialists. They must have been overjoyed that such an influential

leftist, with large followings, held the same positions, in such crucial matters, as

themselves. Whether he realized it or not, these positions were very useful to the powers

that controlled the levers of imperialism and were applying them throughout the world, their

biggest goal being the reversal of history in the former USSR, Eastern Europe, China, and

other socialist countries, which were trying to create classless societies, and in which the

monstrous inequalities and injustices of capitalism had been greatly reduced and replaced

with unmatchable relative equality, justice, and satisfaction of the essential human needs of

housing, food, healthcare, employment, education etc., for everyone in society. These goals

were accomplished to variable degrees in different socialist societies, depending on the level

of development of their productive forces. Even Cuba, a relatively under-developed Third

World country, was able to make great strides in implementing many of these objectives.

After the counter-revolutions, overthrow of socialism, and restoration of capitalism, all the

sinister problems of social inequality, injustices, corruption, prostitution etc. have exploded

in the former socialist societies with such great speed and force that they have even

surpassed those in the US and Western Europe.

How can such a bright intellectual like Chomsky not see the connection between the betrayal

and destruction of socialism in the USSR and USSR itself and the invasions and devastation of

Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria by the US and its NATO allies, in which more than three

million humans have been slaughtered, countless millions injured, uprooted, and turned into

refugees, with all the immense sufferings that result from that, infrastructures and

economies destroyed, sectarian and other civil wars started that continue unabated, victims

hardened into brutal revenge seekers, creation of Taliban, Al Qaeda, Islamic State (Daesh),

and numerous other militant groups? If socialism had not been betrayed, capitalism not

restored, and the USSR had remained what it was, the US and NATO would never have dared

to engage in such invasions and aggressions. Even people with average intelligence

understand that. How can an extraordinary intellectual like Chomsky not understand that?

The catastrophic dangers of the Third World War have also multiplied because of

the multiplications of aggressive inter-capitalist and inter-imperialist competition for the

world’s resources, markets, and spheres of influence and domination, as a direct result of the

betrayal and destruction of socialism in the former socialist countries. And yet, Chomsky has

not repented or rectified this one of the greatest blunders of his life. And his numerous

followers continue following his footsteps. So, what is the great Guru of the American left so

happy about? What is happening in the post-socialist world was totally predictable.

Another great problem with Chomskyism is that it has no credible proposals for solutions to

the problems it analyzes so sharply and exhaustively, mostly in the positivist and analytical

mode. Dialectical mode seems to be alien to it. It has no vision of what and how the current

politico-economic system of imperialism, and its countless institutions, will be replaced

with. In contrast, Marx and Lenin had identified and explained such transformations and

replacements, in great detail, precisely and concretely. Some of Chomsky’s associate

anarchist gurus at the Znet and Zmagazine have come up with various subjectivist illusions of

the so-called Parecon (Participatory Economics), which they consider to be a substitute for

Marxist-Leninist theory of politico-economic revolutionary transformations. Parecon is

nothing but an updated version of the thoroughly discredited hot air balloons of the

anarchists of the 19th Century, like Bakunin, Kropotkin etc. There is no substitute for the

essential stages of the socialist revolutions that were discovered and worked out by Marx and

Lenin, and later further elaborated upon by numerous Marxists-Leninists. No matter how the

current anarchists cloth their subjectivist politico-economic concepts-with floods of written

and spoken verbal diarrheas-which may even look and sound convincing, these remain hot air

balloons, impossible and unrealizable.

His contradictory utterances in relation to the destruction of Libya by the US and NATO

forces; negligence, ignorance, and distortion of the great politico-economic and numerous

other accomplishments of its leader, Moammar Gadhafi, who was brutally murdered by the

US military and CIA connected rebel groups; and the US and NATO invasion of Afghanistan,

among others, have been detrimental to the accurate comprehension of these important

international matters. His tendency to float above the concrete and objective politico-

economic facts, in his various analyses, also leads to reduction of matters and events to

subjective rationalism. As he has had large followings in the US and numerous European and

other countries, such flaws-which have not been detected, ignored, or agreed with by his

followers-have caused enormous damages to the development of a genuine and effective

revolutionary consciousness in the left and other progressives, as well as to the anti-war

movements. His divisive presence among the left has caused more damages than

benefits. This author had written a critique of some of Chomsky’s erroneous positions in an

article that can be read with the following link. Further discussion on this topic can also be

read there, which has been added at the end of that article, under Postscript April 7, 2015.

https://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/a-brief-review-of-some-

of-noam-chomskys-erroneous-positions-by-fazal-rahman-ph-d/#more-115

None of the above and other writers on these subjects have examined the dialectical

interactions between the US imperialism and democracy in the center and the periphery or

the effects of imperialism on human nature and its internal and external ecology. These

areas have remained especially unexplored in relation to the imperialist center, i-e., in the

US.

Most people do not even know what imperialism is, much less about its effects on democracy

or human nature. They think it is just the military conquest and domination of other

nations. They are unaware of the modern economic nature or operations of imperialism, so

concisely defined by Lenin as the highest stage of the development of capitalism (17), in

which the export of capital, foreign investments, dominance of finance capital, and other

older as well as newer neo-colonial methods of exploitation of natural and human resources

in the countries of the periphery are deployed for the purpose of maximization of profits and

transfer of wealth from the periphery to the imperialist center. Military conquest, regime

changes, reestablishment of direct control over the resources of other nations, colonialism

etc. are older and antiquated methods of imperialism which the Bush and Obama

administrations are now reviving, starting with Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Many NATO

countries are also now following in their footsteps and reverting back to a previous era of

colonialist and militarist imperialism.

In discussing imperialism, the author has started from Lenin’s premises as imperialism being

the highest stage of the development of capitalism. The focus of Lenin in that work was on

the economic nature and processes of imperialism. However, political, cultural, and mass

psychological factors and processes of imperialism are also of great importance, and he also

dealt with these in his other works. It is crucial to identify, analyze, and comprehend these

and their evolution at various stages of the development of imperialism. In this rather brief

article, an effort has been made to present an outline of these interactions and processes at

the current stage of history. This outline needs much further development and

substantiation.

Positivist and neo-positivist Vs dialectical approaches to reality

For historical, philosophical, and cultural reasons, much of the politico-economic, sociological,

philosophical, and related literature in the US, Canada, and UK is dominated by positivist and

neo-positivist approaches and attitudes. Most authors confine themselves to listing of

information and facts, mostly obtained from the major media, and interpreting and analyzing

them from the leftist or rightist perspectives. However, the analysis rarely penetrates the

surface, the appearances. Hardly any effort is made to relate the events, facts, and

information to their law-regulated causes and processes or to any proper theoretical

frameworks. The former are examined in abstraction, disconnection, and fragmentation

from the later. Dialectical approaches and ways of thinking and analyses-that grasp the

phenomena in their contradictions, interactions, interconnections, and developmental

movement, and aim at arriving at their essences, by penetrating deeply below the surface-are

very rare in these societies.

With positivist and neo-positivist approaches, it is impossible to arrive at the real and full

nature of phenomena, like wars, crises, symptoms of sickness of societies and human nature

etc., much less to propose any effective solutions. For example, in case of wars, the leftist

web sites and publications start overflowing with empirical articles that tend to reduce them

to merely the problems of policy, without identifying and illuminating the origins of policy

from the structure of the politico-economic system of imperialism, technocracy, and

culture. Such approaches are extremely detrimental to any in-depth and objective

understanding and illumination of the real nature and causes of wars and other such

phenomena, which are inextricably connected with and originate in the political economy of

imperialism.

New dimensions of imperialism

In spite of the richness of literature and abundance of knowledge and information in this

area, there are some dimensions of imperialism, which have remained almost totally

unidentified, unstudied, and unknown thus far. One of those dimensions involves the effects

of imperialism on human nature, culture, mass psychology, and behaviour- the internal and

external ecology of human nature- as well as its effects on the ecology of nature. Another

involves the interactions of imperialism with democracy. These dimensions consist of

interactions between various macro level components of social and human reality. It is a

truism that all reality involves interactions between various components, and that all

observable phenomena are the products of such interactions. Powerful social forces of

macro level systems- like imperialism, capitalism, socialism, science and technology, cultures,

religions etc. – interact with and produce powerful effects on all social and human reality,

including the human nature itself. And yet, these areas have, by and large, remained in

almost total darkness, in spite of the fact that the results, symptoms, and evidence of these

large-scale interactions are everywhere, multiplying, and growing ever more gigantic.

This author has done in-depth and original interdisciplinary investigations of these most

important and neglected dimensions of imperialism. His first paper on these complex

subjects, Effects of the contemporary technological model on the genetic regulation of inner

human faculties, was published in the Journal of Social and Biological Structures, during 1980

(1). This was the first biosocial investigation ever of this dimension, in which a new macro-

level and comprehensive theory was developed and presented. During 1982, he wrote a

more comprehensive paper on this subject, Biosocial regulation of human nature by social

systems-science and technology-culture complexes, in which, the original theory of the first

paper was somewhat refined and further elaborated upon (2). These articles were written

long before epigenetics, involving gene regulation, became accepted and popular among the

scientific community. The research information has exploded in this area during the previous

twenty years and now it is being applied in all areas of biological, medical, and social

sciences, various phenomena being reinterpreted in the light of such neo-Lamarckian

discoveries and theories. However, no one has yet come up with such a comprehensive and

macro-level theory-integrating politico-economic systems, technocracy, culture, and human

nature-as contained in these two papers.

The new discoveries prove that the French evolutionary geneticist Jean-Baptiste Pierre

Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829) was correct in

his theory of the inheritance of the acquired characteristics and that various social and

physical environmental factors can and do bring about changes in the gene regulation and

expression, which can then be inherited and passed on to the progeny. His theory, which was

produced long before that of Darwin, was subjected to extremist discrimination, suppression,

negligence, and ridicule for more than 200 years-in favor of the exclusivity of Darwinian

theory of evolution-, by the scientific and other establishments, in the Western Capitalist

Civilization, which inflicted great damages to the development of extremely important

research information and knowledge in that area, during all that time. Founders of Marxism-

Leninism had used the Darwin’s evolutionary theory in support of their theories of historical

and dialectical materialism, as it scientifically explained the origin of new and different

species from the old, just like the new social systems originated from the old ones. On the

other hand, more importantly, the capitalists used its categories of competition, natural

selection, and survival of the fittest to explain and justify similar features in their own

capitalist system. They resisted and excluded any theories or research that would indicate

the role of environmental factors in modifications of traits, their inheritance, and in the

evolutionary changes. Only recently, the research discoveries in epigenetics have exploded

to such levels that Lamarck’s theory can no longer be ignored or denied.

The above papers were written at a time when epigenetics was in its infancy. It remains the

only such published work in these areas. The author funded that theoretical work from his

own meager resources. In this country, he has suffered diabolical damages to his life and

career by the scientific establishments due to multidimensional philosophical, intellectual,

political, cultural, and racist discrimination. The above-mentioned biosocial regulation theory

needs to be expanded and developed further, in the form of a book. He has all the ideas in

his head for doing that and has done updated review of literature. He had already refined

and developed the original theory in a second more detailed paper. He needs collaboration

and some institutional support for completion of this work. If anyone is interested in that,

please contact the author at unpollutedfaz (at) aol.com or by telephone at (602)539-

1440. This would be a truly original and groundbreaking work, most important for the

identification and comprehension of enormous problems that have developed in the

Subjective Factor and Human Nature, under the powerful politico-economic, socio-cultural,

mass psychological, and epigenetic forces of capitalism, imperialism, and technocracy. We are

living through one of the worst periods in human history, certainly the worst during the past

two centuries. Socialism did not fail in the USSR or China. It is the human nature that failed

and betrayed socialism there. Causes of such failure are rooted in the contradictory and

dialectical nature of human nature and its interactions with the politico-economic systems,

cultures, and technocracy etc. These causes have not been investigated in any depth

Lamarck had arrived at his theory on the basis of Intuition, a faculty that Albert Einstein

considered to be of primary importance, much more important than Reason, for discovering

really fundamental and important new theories and knowledge. Intuition had enabled

Einstein to arrive at the foundations of his theories of relativity.

The above papers have dealt with an extremely complex subject, using some of the most

advanced knowledge and information in various areas of social and biological sciences. The

central conclusion of the theory is that the contemporary forms of imperialism-technocracy-

culture complex create and develop profound biosocial conflicts between various parts of

human nature, on populational levels. The ecological balance of the inner ecology of human

nature, in populations existing under the contemporary forms of this complex, has been, and

continues to be, greatly disrupted, on biosocial regulatory levels. Spiritual part of human

nature- the source of drives for justice, cooperation, goodness, truth, beauty, love, altruism,

synthetic and holistic modes of thought and feelings, the sacred, and other higher human

faculties-is repressed, deformed, and perverted, while, materialistic part of human nature-

including scientific and technical abilities; drives for domination, power, competition,

selfishness, greed, desecration, aggression, militarism, and consumption; analytical,

calculative, and fragmented modes of thinking and feelings-and the human faculties

underlying these-is activated and regulated to high levels- all of this on the biosocial

regulatory levels- under the powerful biosocial forces of this complex. This is the worst form

of dehumanization and inhumanization imaginable, in which, technically highly advanced

“humans” become disabled in some of the most important higher human faculties, emptied

out of the drives and feelings of cooperation, true and genuine freedom, justice, love, grace,

the sacred, truth, goodness, beauty etc., and molded into the drives and feelings of capitalist

materialism, slavery to the Capital, greed, injustice, hatred, disgrace, desecration, lies, evil,

ugliness, aggression, militarism, selfishness, sadism etc, in variable combinations and to

variable degrees, depending upon particular individuals, families, groups, and their

interactions with the socio-economico-politico-cultural forces of the complex. The

mainstream processes are being described here. It is important to recognize that these

processes are not exclusive and other types of biosocial regulatory processes are also

functioning in the given populations. Not everyone in the advanced imperialist societies is

being biosocially conditioned and regulated in the same way or to the same degree.

However, the human nature of most people in these societies is being conditioned and

regulated to variable degrees. Moreover, such conditioning and regulation are also being

internationalized, through the dominance and penetration of the economic, political, cultural,

educational, institutional, scientific, technological, and industrial models of the imperialist

centers, throughout the various countries of this world. As far as the Third World is

concerned, such conditioning and regulation of human nature, as is characteristic of the

advanced imperialist societies, is mostly confined to the economic, political, educational, and

military elites there, especially those trained by the institutions or personnel of the

imperialist centers. However, countless millions of ordinary people are also constantly

bombarded with it, by great variety of imported products, as well as by the various media,

especially the TV.

The basic laws of imperialism-democracy complex

The following general laws are proposed to be operating in the interactions and processes

involving imperialism and democracy in the imperialist center and its periphery:

1. The Law of Inverse Relationship Between the Development of Imperialism

and Development of Democracy.

Politically, the highest stage of the development of imperialism manifests itself in the

transformation of democracy and democratic institutions into demonocracy and

demonocratic institutions, both in the imperialist center and the periphery. The development

of imperialism is inversely proportional to the development of democracy in all these

countries. In its simplest interpretation, this law means that higher development of

imperialism in the imperialist center erodes real democracy in that center as well as in the

countries of its periphery. There is an inverse relationship between the development of

imperialism and development of real democracy.

In its relationship and interactions with democracy, imperialism is almost always more

powerful and dominant and molds democracy and its institutions in its own image, almost

always dedemocratizing them. Imperialism is the most powerful enemy of all democracy. As

shown elsewhere (1, 2), it is also the most powerful enemy of some of the most important

parts of human nature and of the integrity of human nature. Objectively, people who

support imperialism, under the guise of patriotism or any other slogan, are, in reality,

supporting the erosion and destruction of democracy as well as of human nature, including

their own. A greater and more sinister folly is hardly imaginable. And yet, a great majority of

Americans are conditioned and addicted to that so massively that it must make Pavlov wish

in his grave that his theory of conditioned stimulus-response were not correct. But,

unfortunately, it is correct. Nowhere one finds such massive confirmation of Pavlov’s theory

than in the US, the epitome of Western democracy and imperialism.

When pollution and deformation of mass intellect and soul, of the social mental and spiritual

apparatus, reaches a certain threshold, there is no possibility of any real democracy in that

society, no matter how the mechanics and formalities of the system are maintained or

reformed. When human nature itself becomes demonocratic, it constantly produces and

reproduces demonocracy, and not democracy, even though the mechanics and formalities of

the system may still maintain the appearance of democracy.

2. The Law of Inverse Relationship Between the Power of Capital and of Human

Nature.

Empowerment of capital in a given society is inversely proportional to empowerment of

human nature and people in that society. In its simplest interpretation, this law means that

the more capital is empowered in a society, the more disempowered human nature and

people become. .

3. The Law of Mutual Negative Conditioning and Reinforcement of the

Imperialist-Capitalist System and Human Nature.

Evils, injustices, distortions, and deformations embedded in the politico-economic system

and institutions of society constitute powerful social forces which evilize, distort, and deform

human nature massively in that society. Conversely, such evilization, distortion, and

deformation of human nature maintain, reinforce, and enhance these features in the system

and its institutions. This mutual conditioning and reinforcement progressively leads to the

development of demonocracy in the advanced capitalist-imperialist societies. That is

precisely what has been happening in the US.

4. The Law of Dominance of Capitalist-Technological Rationality And Its

Transformation Into Sinister Insanity In The Advanced Capitalist-Imperialist

Technocratic Civilization.

This law is connected to the above Law of Inverse Relationship Between the Power of Capital

and of Human Nature and The Law of Mutual Negative Conditioning and Reinforcement of

the Imperialist-Capitalist System and Human Nature. In the Advanced Capitalist-Imperialist

Technocratic Civilization (ACITC), the Human Reason is progressively transformed into

Capitalist-Technological Rationality, among scientists, technicians, various types of capitalists,

politico-economic leaders, and overwhelming majority of the populations. It becomes the

dominant faculty in the mass mental apparatus, on the expense of various other human

faculties, especially those that are connected with and are expressions of the Human

Soul. Fragmented and abstracted from the Human Soul, and compartmentalized, the

Capitalist-Technological Rationality (CTR) increasingly serves and empowers capitalist-

imperialist injustice, inequality, exploitation, aggression, domination, brutality, selfishness,

big and small lies, hypocrisy, etc.,-in a word, Evil-both on the national and international

levels. On the international level, this is frequently manifested in brutal, atrocious, and

unjust imperialist wars and conflicts. The Advanced Capitalist-Technological Rationality

becomes increasingly transformed into Sinister Insanity, which is also exported to rest of

world.

Capitalism, especially the advanced capitalism, in the form of imperialism, is the greatest

eroder, distorter, perverter, and destroyer of Human Soul, the seat of all the higher human

qualities and values, which, in mentally and spiritually healthy, unalientated, and unreified

humans, integrates and regulates all the diverse faculties, drives, needs, and actions,

including those of the Reason and Intellect. Reduction of Reason and Intellect to Capitalist

Technological Rationality (CTR) and tailoring and submission of Soul to its requirements-as

has been done in the Advanced Capitalist-Imperialist Technocratic Civilization (ACITC)-

perverts, disrupts, and destroys the very foundation of the inner ecology of human

nature. This is the subjective basis of all the objective evils and injustices, with which the

ACITC has saturated and polluted this planet, including the mass psychology and human

nature of overwhelming majority of its own populations, as well as much of the rest of

mankind. Not surprisingly, the most extreme forms of these phenomena are to be found in

the current leader of ACITC, the United States of America, from where these radiate to every

corner of the planet. Nothing is left untouched or alone.

Surely, the problems of conditioning and tailoring of human nature also existed in other class-

divided systems and societies. However, the particular type of tailoring being described here

is unique to the ACITC, which is also the most efficient and most massive, as it is being

automatically regulated and implemented by the most powerful, combined, united, and

inextricably intertwined politico-economic, social, cultural, mass psychological, and

epigenetic forces of capitalism and technocracy.

All the immense material powers-and systems of class-based national and international

relations-of ACITC were achieved with the applications of CTR, resulting in the most diabolical

association of capitalism, technological rationality, and elements, components, and forces of

nature on this planet. These powers were contained with the emergence and development

of the Communist Civilization (CC) and its Socialist Technological Rationality (STR) and the

development of various powers and products-and systems of national and international

relations that were striving to create classless societies-with its applications. CC and STR had

the potential to dialectically preserve and further develop the integrity of the inner ecology

of human nature and create a radically new human civilization. However, in actual practice,

due to existential dangers, constant attacks, threats, conspiracies, and life and death struggle

with the ACITC and CTR, this potential could only be partially realized. The extreme hostility

and dangers of highly developed technocratic militarism of ACITC did not allow this potential

to develop and manifest itself, as it would have in the absence of these. The CC had to

devote large amounts of its resources on countering such mortal dangers.

The greatest setback and blow to the development of a just, good, and humane civilization

occurred with the betrayal and destruction of CC and STR in the USSR, Eastern Europe, and

China, where capitalism and CTR have been restored. They are now part of ACITC, even

though Russia and China have been increasingly forced into the position of opposition and

competing blocks within the ACITC, by the US and EU. The current international situation is

much more dangerous than that of the cold war, as it is characterized by the inter-capitalist

and inter-imperialist struggle and competition for resources, markets, exports, spheres of

influence and dominance, everywhere on the planet. The Third World War, in the face of US

and NATO aggressions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Libya, was only prevented by the

compromise, restraint, and retreat of Russia and China. However, Russia has now been

pushed into a corner in the new Ukrainian conflicts on its border, instigated by its rivals in the

US and EU. After the overthrow of the elected President, fascists, racists, and extremists-who

want to turn Ukraine into a base of NATO against Russia-have gained control of the

government machinery in Ukraine. Russia was finally forced to draw a line there and seems

to be willing to confront the NATO forces, if necessary. As far as the Chinese are concerned,

their role so far has been ambiguous, as they have been benefiting enormously in their trade

and investment relations with the West and rest of the world, and have been very reluctant

to rock the boat. Capitalist westernization of Chinese political economy, society, education

system, and culture is in full swing, in spite of the hypocritical admonitions of its political

leaders in this regard. Hundreds of thousands of students have been sent to the American

and European universities for studies. When they return, most of them will bring back

the western capitalist mass psychology, culture, and behavior with them. It remains to be

seen how the Chinese will act, if the push comes to shove. They are also being pushed into a

corner and may finally draw a line, like Russia did.

As in case of all such laws, these laws work complexly in dialectical ways. There are zigzags

and modifications of their operations by various mediating forces and factors. However,

ultimately, the results of the operations of these laws conform to their contents.

Economic costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

According to government’s figures, the invasion of Iraq has cost the American taxpayers

more than $1 trillion and that of Afghanistan is also fast approaching that level. Some other

estimates have been much higher, e.g. those of Stiglitz and Bilmes, amounting to $3 trillion

(18). Only the big oil and military production corporations have benefited enormously from

these, and have made record profits. The American people and their economy have suffered

devastating damages. These wars have been one of the major causes of the current all-round

structural crisis in the US. As usual, Americans, in the beginnings of these wars,

overwhelmingly supported these. Now, after a decade of devastations and mass murders in

those countries-amounting to millions-and great damages to the US economy itself, the

public opinion is shifting against them.

Conclusion

Predatory political economy of imperialism creates a predatory imperialist mass psychology;

human nature; culture; politics; military, militarism, militarist policies and actions; and all the

international relations. These manifest themselves in constant production and reproduction

of various international and national crises and problems. Within the existing balance of

social forces, mitigation and opposition to such individual crises and problems is extremely

important. However, one must not lose sight of their context in that process. The nature of

systematic and constant generation of these crises and problems under a highly militarized

political economy, like that of the US, requires a systematic, integrated, and dialectical

approach to their understanding and creation of a mass movement based on this. Abolition

of the constant production and reproduction of these crises, problems, atrocities, and crimes

requires the abolition of imperialist political economy. In a highly brainwashed, disinformed,

and unimaginative society like that of the US, it may seem to be an impossible goal. But

nothing short of it will do the job. That must be the aim of any genuine, rational, and sincere

peace, social and international justice, and environmental mass movement.

In the absence of scientific theoretical grounding, empirical facts and research are entirely

inadequate to reveal the necessary, the stable, and law governed processes of reality, its

various phenomena, and their essence. This is the greatest flaw of most publications in social

and politico-economic “sciences”, including those on current events, in the imperialist

countries in general, and US in particular. This deficiency is also prevalent in much of the

leftist literature.

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Appendix

Some parts and ideas of this article were written in some earlier papers on imperialism in Iraq

and Egypt. As these parts are not only relevant to those countries but also to imperialism in

general and its multidimensional nature and effects on democracy, human nature, nature,

society, culture etc., these have also been included here.

Re: Sin, evil and evilization: These terms have been used in this article to describe actions

and policies that are against justice, truth, goodness, beauty, peace, love, compassion, spirit,

soul, ecology of nature and of human nature etc. As such, these words may be interpreted

both in religious and secular terms. Use of the word crime is extremely inadequate to

describe such actions and policies, especially in class-divided societies, in which the laws and

the legal system are, in their essence, reflections of the power and interests of the ruling

classes, and, as such, are instruments of injustice, inequality, and evil.

Re: Human nature: Human nature consists of contradictory and opposite parts. In this

paper, the erosive and destructive effects of biosocial and politico-economic forces of

imperialism etc. on human nature are in reference to the positive parts of human nature. The

same forces have activating and developmental effects on some of the negative parts of

human nature. Under capitalism and imperialism, even some of most important and positive

parts of human nature are transformed into their opposites, into negative.

Re: Language of the paper: It is consciously holistic. In social sciences, it is most important to

include spiritual, emotional, ethical and other such categories to describe social and human

phenomena. These are some of the most important parts of human and social reality and

purging them from the methodology and language, dealing with this reality and its

components, purges and excludes these most important contents from investigation and

discourse. Such purging is systematic in modern social “sciences” and constitutes the Great

Distortion of Knowledge in these, in the service of the powers that be.

Brief Bio

Dr. Fazal Rahman is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer, with background in many

areas of biological and social sciences. He has lived and worked in many countries, like

Pakistan, Brazil, USA, Lebanon, and Zambia, as a scientist and head of research and

development programs and centers. He has done in-depth and extensive studies on

Marxism, Leninism, phenomenology, existentialism, political economy of capitalism and

socialism, political economy of US and former USSR, technocracy, psychology, mass

psychology, and genetics, etc.

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