Part 2: An Independent Nation of Peace or Belligerent Prop of US Imperialism
Does Canada as a nation chart an independent international course of peace, progress and cooperation with other non-aligned and emerging states or remain entrenched in the monopoly capital interests of G7 states dominated by US imperialism supplying a growing share of our raw natural resources primarily to US value-added industries supporting US policies of war and hegemony?
The answer to this question placed within the context of contemporary world affairs situates Canada either as a nation of progress or a nation of reaction. It places the Canadian people either in solidarity with the overwhelming majority of the world’s people who work for wages and in their majority reject neo-colonial and imperialist policies or within the camp of a diminishing privileged sector of finance, energy and military capital - a belligerent class of wealth and privilege who perpetrate wars, dominance and occupation on the peoples of the world. The outcome of this question makes Canadian workers either the masters of their own destiny or complicit in imperialist wars of conquest and occupation. There can be no middle ground.
The fight for control over the commanding heights of the national economy determining the political and economic direction Canada pursues – either peace and progress, or war and reaction – is ultimately the struggle between labour and capital. It is the struggle for national policies which serve the interests of working people who must rely on wages or policies that serve a small and ever contracting parasitical class of wealth and privilege who rely on the unpaid labour time of workers in one form or another. There is no middle course.
There can be no reconciliation, no alignment, nor common purpose between the interests of labour and capital. There can be no basis for national policies that search for “equitable” distribution and sharing of the resources of the nation other than those which seek to fully subordinate the interests of finance and monopoly capital to those of the labouring people of Canada. This is the only basis upon which the Canadian people can fulfil the vast potential of the nation. It is the only path to be a leader in the contribution toward peace and progress in the world, and which provides all the peoples of Canada the opportunity to live a life free of economic hardship and worry. Canada has that potential and more.
