[Bondy] "spoke of the economic system of "robbery" under the totalitarian regime (only Bondy would compare it with the ancient Chinese imperial gentry!), his dissatisfaction with Civic Forum, the history of the Underground, the non-role of Czech students in the revolutionary movement, Havel's rise to power through the human rights petition-cum-organization Charter 77, the threat of "international monopolist capitalism" comgin to Czechoslovakia (with its attendant poverty), his belief that Czechoslovakians have no interest in privatization, and his fears that his nation will be coopted into joining the imperialists' war against the Third World. Throughout our talk, he lamented the lost opportunity to remake true socialism out of the "postcapitalist" rubble of the Stalinist Czechoslovakian economy."

The question of the Third World is the most profound question of our immediate future. What happens here in Eastern Europe is not the center of world development. The central problem is the question of the Third World and the coming confrontation between the international imperialists and the needs of the peoples who comprise the majority of mankind. We now have 6 billion in the world; in twenty-five years, 9 billion, for whom the imperialists are not prepared to bring humane living conditions

The Pentagon and George Bush thank God every day for the criminal Saddam Hussein. (...) The criminal Saddam Hussein gives them an opening and they thank God for the excuse.

(...) It is all only a pretext for the new crusade against the Third World, in the interest of the world rule of the imperialist mode of production. Because, under their rules, it is impossible for all people of this planet to have humane living conditions. They need a cheap labor force. They need poor areas of the world. They need poor people. They don't want people to manage their own fate for themselves. They don't want freedom for these people. They want a market for second- and third-quality commodities and the riches for themselves.

And for us in Eastern Europe one of the greatest dangers is this: that we could, by demagogy, become involved in this struggle on the side of "white civilization." This is what I fear most. ...

I fear that under the cover of the "struggle for freedom," we will be only mercenaries in the struggle for so-called white civilization, although we shall remain only as a reservoir of cheap labor. A tragicomical situation.