Don't Mourn Detente

Detente is clearly deceit. There is no reason why we should oppose the abandonment of a lie by the US as seems their present policy. If we desire to achieve genuine peace we cannot avoid reality, no matter how distasteful. For to bring peace we must change reality.

Wars do not arrive by accident. They are the product of policies pursued before the war. As long as the two imperialist superpowers exist war between them is inevitable. As their contention heightens and their imperialist policies find little opposition the time table for war shortens.

It is not vague mouthings but the development of a united front for struggle against the two superpowers and their war preparations that will delay the outbreak of war and lessen its scope and consequences. The current breakdown in detente, in as much as it opens peoples' eyes, is by no means totally bad. We should remember that it has been Brezhnev's Soviet Union that has been biggest in the words of detente while at the same time developing into an aggressive superpower that interferes and meddles around the globe. It is the biggest preacher of detente that poses the main threat of a new world war. Why then should we mourn detente's passing.

James Morgan