anti-socialist policies into serious question. The stupidities,
mendacities and wanton cruelties of the United States' undeclared
Vietnam War, even before the advent of Johnson and Nixon, had so
weakened Washington leadership that no major power would associate
itself with the adventure. The "Allies" in Vietnam were the U.S.A. and
two or three vassal Asian states.

Half a century of cold war and co-existence punctuated by military
invasions and hot wars, fought between groups from both sides in the
class struggle, faced mankind with several undeniable facts:

1. Planet-wide economic, political and social changes had been
made during the previous half-century.

2. Capitalism was no longer supreme as it had been before
1900. On the contrary, since 1950 the planet has been divided
along class lines--capitalism versus socialism.

3. Socialism-communism is one of the most obvious facts of
present-day planetary life.

4. Capitalism is losing ground, especially in Europe.

5. Socialism is gaining ground, especially in Eurasia.

Co-existence presupposes recognition of these five propositions and a
willingness to abide by the outcome of the evolutionary-revolutionary
process, through which the western world is passing.

During several centuries, ending in 1900, western civilization passed