Theses on the world conjuncture

The capitalist world system is sinking into turmoil and chaos.

Imperialism won a decade more life for itself by plundering the fallen
socialist world. The 'fire sale at the end of history' consumed a staggering
accumulation of values and assets, the hard-earned achievement of decades of
sacrifice and labour by generations of Soviet men and women. It helped fuel
the greatest Wall Street boom in history and the most-sustained period
of US expansion.

By some estimates more than three trillion dollars
was pumped out of Russia and eastern Europe between 1990-1998 -- a
sum equivalent to the gross national product of France, Italy and Britain
combined. No-one knows what the true losses are, and the haemorrhage
continues to bleed this vast territory white, at the costs of millions of
lives, of the despoliation of the Soviet resource-base, the ransacking of
nature and unrestrained environmental destruction, and by stealing the
futures of hundreds of millions of lives; stealing even the food from their
mouths (Russian nutritional levels have fallen drastically) (see Russia).

Such a catastrophe has few historical precedents: the annihilation of the
native American civilizations after the 16th century is one. But the
conquest of the Americas, the genocidal extirpation of at least 70 million
native Americans slaughtered or dead through famine and disease, the
wholesale enslavement of African peoples and their mobilization in the
greatest flowering of slave-production since ancient times: all this bloody
massacre and plunder, which formed primitive accumulation and allowed 18th
century protocapitalism to launch the Industrial Revolution: this was the
work of three centuries! And the equivalent plunder of eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union has been the work of less than a  decade...

Such is the frantic acceleration of capitalism's moloch-machinery, such is
the intensification of the frenzy of exploitation which sucks whole
peoples and generations into its maw; and still it is not enough.
The sacking of socialism released vast new resources, in particular
energy (oil above all) and enabled a dramatic hike in the profit-rate in the
imperial centres. It has directly fuelled the boom in asset-values in the
Anglo-Saxon centres and helped stabilize the German-led European
Union.

Newly-unified Germany could afford to spend $800 bn
incorporating east Germany (the former German Democratic Republic),
to power the new revanchist German imperialism, yet even this vast sum has
proven insufficient to overcome the profound dynamic of
centralisation and concentration of capital which is the hallmark of the
area. The German revanchists tried to swim against the tide which sucks
value out of the neocolonies into the metropoles. For historical and
chauvinist reasons they tried to incorporate the East German working
class but this politics has been negated by the main trend at work in the
world today, namely to leach out value from the peripheries. This is a
most striking evidence of the elemental force of the dynamics of
imploding capitalism. US imperialism is the heart of the vortex, and this
is the pole which draws profit and superprofit to itself, bleaching white
the world system. Germany, the second-strongest imperialism, was
unable to resist the centripetal process and today, despite its huge
subsidising of east German reconstruction, the wasteland of
unemployment and despair which capitalism creates in all its neocolonies is
as much in evidence in east Germany as anywhere else. (see BasicFacts)

China, too, under the Deng Xiaoping clique has become fully
reincorporated into the circuits of world capitalism. The Chinese
revanchists have raised the banner of renewed Chinese imperialism and
aspire to compete with the existing imperial powers. Explosive social
contradictions have opened up in the space of former Chinese socialism
but the drive to construct a world-centre of capitalist accumulation in the
Shenzhen-Hong Kong axis has failed. China cannot escape the dramatic
crisis unfolding in Asia, as cannibal-capitalism gnaws its living tissue.
China is inescapably caught in the apocalyptic spiral of crisis now
dragging the capitalist world system down into chaos, disintegration and
war. And a terrible price has already been paid by the Chinese working
class for the benefits its parasitic rulers hoped to gain from joining the
imperialist club.

The achievements of Chinese socialism have been demolished, the assets
painfully accumulated since 1949 are being gutted with the
same frenzy as in the former Soviet Union, while tens of
millions of dispossessed Chinese workers -- robbed of their socialist
birthright -- are conscripted into the cauldron of the Chinese coastal
enclaves. The collapse of the world system is proceeding at an ever-
increasing pace, and the tempo of Chinese accumulation has proven
wholly insufficient to drag Chinese capitalism free of the vortex. At the
same time, a whole new dimension of crisis is revealed beneath the
growing rents and tears of Chinese capitalism. It is daily clearer just what
terrible price future generations of Chinese workers will pay for the
alleged benefits of economic growth experienced in China since the fall
of Chinese socialism. A terrible whirlwind of environmental and resource
depletion has been sown by the so-called Green Revolution which has
produced agricultural growth in China and throughout Asia.

The mechanism of boosting crop-production also led directly to the
dispossessing of hundreds of millions of peasants, decanting these
discontented, hungry masses into the vast new megacities of Asia, from
Bengal to Shenzhen. But this Green Revolution was won not only at
terrible social cost; it has resulted in a wholly-unsustainable agriculture
which is ravaging the environment and depleting water resources and soil
fertility at an unprecedented rate. At the same time, environmental
pollution has created a nightmare world for the multimillioned Asian
masses.

'Booming' Asian capitalism has created this stinking environmental
hell, characterised by the pollution of water bodies,
coastal seas and the land, covering vast regions with global-warming
induced forest fires, turning the megacities into uninhabitable death traps.

The 'Keynesian' reformers seek to refuel Asian capitalism, but if they
succeed then these fundamental resource and environment crises will
only be intensified to an intolerable degree; in the next decades the
collapse of Asian ecosystems will only accelerate, made worse as global
warming raises sea levels and inundates coastal regions where almost a
billion people now live. Thus Keynesian reforms, insofar as they are
implemented successfully, will serve only to exacerbate the underlying
crisis and to hasten the final day of revolutionary reckoning.

The contradictions of Asian capitalism are ripening in Indonesia and
elsewhwre and is producing  aftershocks which are beyond the
capacity of world imperialism to direct or control. The mechanism of
crisis has assumed a capricious, uncontrollable character and this
tendency itself is accelerating. Imperialism, which in the past has eagerly
sought to intensify crises, in eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and
elsewhere, is now in a desperate struggle to slow down and contain
evolving crisis, but does not know how. Whereas crisis has always been
welcomed as a mechanism for destroying the working class, for
increasing the tempo of exploitation through constant speed-ups and
restructuring and the retirement of 'obsolete' capital (i.e., the productive
systems painfully built-up in the course of development and often
perfectly suited to the specific conditions in the neocolonies), today
imperialism wants to apply the brakes to a world crisis spinning out of
control.

The political confusion this abrupt change of direction produces is best
evidenced in the response of the West to the Asia meltdown. The
shock troops of world imperialism -- its parastatal organs such as the
World Bank and the IMF - responded to the Asian crisis by applying the tried
and tested' methods of crisis INTENSIFICATION. Thus the IMF
introduced shock-therapy regimes designed to intensify the rate of
exploitation in Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere and to further
bind these neocolonies into the straitjacket of world capitalism; but the
immediate result was to exacerbate the crisis and further destabilise these
states and the Asian economy as a whole.

This has led to turmoil, confusion and loss of political direction within
imperialism, evidenced by the astonishing public criticisms voiced by
leading IMF and World Bank bureaucrats and their political masters in
Washington, who now openly prescribe the sort of 'Keynesian' social reforms
they previously strove with might and main to bury forever. Now the IMF
itself speaks of 'labour rights' and 'social protection', and has begun to
address the need to reflate collapsing economies and to stimulate demand,
all of which flatly contradicts the mission given to these policemen of
finance capitalism. Only the continuing inflation of the stock market
bubbles continues to conceal the truth.

Do the new reformers have
any chance of success? With their vocal and enthusiastic supporters in the
Non-Governmental Organisations, 'left' social
democrats, trade unions, and so-called 'Communist' Parties, these craven
lickspittles of world imperialism are seizing their chance, voicing loud
'critiques' of the IMF strategy and urging their imperialist masters to
'relent', to be more 'forgiving' -- i.e., to forgive not just the debts run
up by their fellow predators, the banks and speculators who have got caught
in the collapse of Asian financial markets, a collapse their own greed
catalysed, but also to 'forgive' the peoples of Indonesia, Korea and
elsewhere the doubling and tripling of food and fuel prices and the other
usurious exactions the IMF and Washington sought to impose.

But the crisis of world capitalism has no precedent. Exemplified
by incredibly sharp contradictions between wealth and
over-accumulation in the metropolitan poles, and the despair
and deflationary stagnation of the peripheries, with the relentless
immiseration of the newly-urbanised landless, lumpen masses
in the sprawling megacities, world capitalism presents a
spectacle not seen since the shattering dramas of finance
capitalism and imperialism which destroyed the Pax Britannica
in 1914 and which led directly to both the Russian Revolution of 1917
and  the installation of the United States as 20th century hegemon.

The historical cycle which began in 1917 has ended,
and that the collapse of the USSR was only the harbinger of still more
striking and apocalyptic events, in which the stake is not just the safety
of US imperialism, but the survival of world capitalism itself. Therefore it
is clear that the present world crisis is still in its early stages and that
its further development will be marked by a rising tide of working class
resistance.

This is the real significance of the disarray and confusion now visible in
the councils of imperialism. The stench of decay is growing; the
dissolution of world-capitalism's structures and institutions is profound
and unstoppable and therefore it will be the proletariat which will
increasingly make the political running, as the crisis continues to deepen
and the inexorable decomposition of morbid capitalism, the gangrene
which has already begun to kill off its extremities, accelerates.
The malevolent heart of vampire-imperialism beats inside the
Washington Beltway. Here are the arrogant institutions of imperial
power. Here are the great services -- the dark forces -- of its
increasingly-open criminal rule. From here will belch forth the foulest,
hitherto unknown technologies of repression, control, assassination,
genocide and global war waged by US imperialism against the whole of
humankind, including the US working class which itself has
suffered much under the iron heel.

For  two decades the US working class experienced a decline
in wage-levels and living standards with no precedent in US history.
Renewed prosperity has come only from the hyper-exploitation
of the colonial hinterlands, increasingly wracked with social
and ecological crisis and entering a new kind of historical impasse.
This  rotten imperialism will be torn to pieces by the same vast
forces that are wracking the capitalist world system. The
neoliberal-globalist politics of the past decade is already foundering as
its theoretical models and practical policies come under increasingly bitter
attack by the forces of the capitulationist-left (the NGOs, academics,
labour unions and soft social-democrats mentioned earlier). Keynesian
reformism is being feverishly dusted off, the long-discredited politics of
social reforms and demand management being hurriedly refreshed in the
face of a catastrophic world deflation which is already exposing the
brittle, shallow foundations of post-war 'miracle' Japan. Vamped-up
Keynesianism, as we have seen, would only propel world capitalism
deeper into the historical impasse from which there is no escape anyway.

New cycles of capitalist growth, which can only be brief and local in any
case, will only deepen the underlying contradictions between capitalist
development and the environmental and resource-depletion costs which
are the true source of the superprofits sucked by vampire imperialism
from the material world which workers have to inhabit: the world of
relentless exploitation and environmental degradation, with few of the
promised compensations of consumerism.

But in any case, political incoherence in the face of uncontrollable crisis
does not permit imperialism to implement any single sustainable
restructuring process. Thus in opposition to the 'soft- face of reforms,
there is already visible the hideous mask of outright, bloody repression.
While the beleaguered elites argue matters out inside Washington's
Beltway, the dark forces of US imperialism are already taking matters in
their own hands. While the 'humanistic' reformers bleat, the CIA and the
Pentagon plots. The conscience stricken reformers have now begun to
issue their pleas to the IMF and the World Bank, arrogantly claiming for
themselves the right to speak on behalf of the world's oppressed and
exploited, wringing their hands and venting crocodile tears for the fate on
millions of lives imperilled by their own greed -- for none have so
benefited from the merciless exploitation of the working class as the
milk fed priesthood of US culture, as the harlots of the US intelligentsia,
including the so-called left intellectuals - and it is nothing else but
their own skins  and their comfortable lives that they fear losing
and shed tears over.

Meanwhile the dark forces have begun their campaigns of
assassination, torture, 'disappearances', political pressure, harassment and
the like. And this is only the first claw of the monster lurking in the
heart of imperialism.

There can be no illusions that imperialism will ever give
up freely what cannot be torn from its death grip by force. If history
teaches anything, it teaches this: imperialism knows no limits.

Imperialism will  destroy the world sooner than surrender supremacy.
The  enemies of humankind and of all life on earth are already
chafing at the bit, and they will be the first to sweep aside the bleating
platoons of reformists blatherers. As the tides of class struggle rise and
the fire of people's war meld together, imperialism will convert the
politics of the neoliberal 'New World Order' into war. Secret war waged
with all the unscrupulous, inhuman zeal of which the Pentagon and CIA
are past masters: 'anti-insurgency' low-intensity operations designed to
decapitate the proletariat by slaughtering its leaders. Proxy wars waged
by the imperial satraps against one another, at Washington's behest.
Irredentist and intercommunal wars fomented and instigated by the dark
forces whose masters understand the vital importance of divide and rule
and hope to save their skins by generalising a Hobbesian war of all
against all, outside their own borders. Religious wars instigated by the
fanatics who are often the sons and daughters of small tradespeople and
the lower professions, and who seize on bigotry and xenophobia to vent
the rising frustration and anger of the submerged masses, and thus
guarantee their own leading positions within obscurantist theocracies
which allow scope for massive personal corruption and the 'good life' for
their leaders.

In the past two decades imperialism has shown its mastery of this
politics, shunting petit-bourgeois political elites away from the
developmental, anti-colonialist politics of the 50s and 60s and towards
the most, brutal, inhumane and totally senseless forms of sectarian and
intercommunal strife, which are always tolerated and supported by
imperialism: even when states are declared 'pariah', such as Libya, Iraq
and Iran, imperialism does nothing to damage their regimes and even
goes out of its way to defend them, as US imperialism has always
vigilantly defended its client, Saddam Hussein and his murderous Iraqi
regime. Compare this with the fate accorded petit-bourgeois led
anticolonial movements a few decades earlier. In Africa, Latin America
and Asia, such states and leaderships were always surrounded, isolated,
destabilised, and bled white in silent, mostly unreported wars.

The allegedly anti-imperialist regimes of the Middle East and elsewhere
which are led by professional fanatics, soldiers of fortune or religious
zealots, are as much the enemies of the people as are their secret imperial
masters; they, like revanchist religious movements, including those
castigated as 'terrorist' by imperialism, are roadblocks in the way of world
revolution.

The imperialists never cease to meddle in the affairs of the neocolonies.
US imperialism gave the green light to the Indian government of the
right-wing religious BJP fanatics to detonate nuclear devices. They did
not just turn a blind eye to the Indian tests, they permitted them, and the
hollow White House sanctions rhetoric does not disguise the truth. The
imperialists' objective was transparent. The Indian bomb is designed to
warn both Islam and China. US imperialism is terrified of risen Islam;
this was the whirlwind of jihad which the imperialists themselves
encouraged and fostered, for if not Islam, then what else can the West
Asian and Middle Eastern masses turn to? Only socialism, only
communism, only Leninism. The imperialists did all they could to push
Arab nationalism in obscurantist, theocratic directions in the 1950s and
1960s. World capitalism is dependent on Arab oil. This is the secret they
dare not speak, although it shouts out its own name loudly enough. To
safeguard oil supplies, imperialism has for many decades skilfully sought to
create endless instability, local wars and geopolitical 'churning'
throughout the Middle East. Now it has raised the stakes still higher, for
an apocalyptic endgame approaches: it was time to give Hinduism its
bomb, and to let Islam flex its nuclear muscles in the shape of Pakistani
reciprocal tests.  (see Energy)

Thus imperialism sets the stage for fascism in the neocolonies and for
war between Islam, Hinduism and China.

At the same time, this unleashing of the dogs of war further evidences
the disintegration of US hegemony, announced with such arrogant
triumphalism only a few years ago as the Cold War ended. The global
New World Order is giving way to its opposite -- a world of terrifying
disorder in which vast forces have accumulated ready to crash down on
humankind in apocalyptic landslides of terror, reaction and mass death at
any moment.

Will such occasions come to pass?

A better question is how will they be avoided, given the deepening
systemic disarray of hurrah-capitalism and geopolitical formations and
political instances. Economic collapse is being chased by apocalyptic
horsemen of eco-catastrophe, hunger, revolt and war.
Globalism, neoliberalism, have collapsed almost as soon as they have
been announced: the universal hegemony of the markets, a thin screen for
rapacious finance capitalism, will dissolve away at the first cold blast of
a general, world-wide slump and depression. US imperialism already
knows that the choice is not between 'Keynesianism' on the one hand and
globalism on the other. The choices are incalculably grimmer and starker.

Will the world war be confined to Asia and the Middle East, and fought
to the death between imperialism's proxies: India, Pakistan, China?
Or will the US game plan to cut the head off Asian resurgence by
smashing down Chinese and Japanese capitalism, and by the threat of
nuclear war, be only the prelude to a general war, a new and final world
war?

For it must be said that allowing India to have nuclear weapons would
be unthinkable if US imperialism did not face still more abysmal
challenges. It is obvious to any competent observer of the world energy
scene that capitalism's dependence on fossil fuels, primarily oil, is as
great as ever. There are no substitutes which can allow capitalism to
continue in anything like its present form, and the collapse of oil supplies
will, in the BEST case, be the preliminary to not years but decades of
turmoil and reconstruction within the world market. But oil is more
scarce than is ever admitted, and the future energy scenarios now
published by the US government are more fraudulent and full of
barefaced lies and statistical manipulations than anything ever attributed
to the mendacity of the Soviet Union. An unsustainable situation already
exists with respect to energy supply.

If world growth resumes on its pre-1997  trajectory, instead
of glutted energy markets of the recent past, an oil-famine is a
looming prospect as world oil production peaks and then inexorably declines.
Peak production at present rates will occur in the next few years: far too
short a time scale for crisis to be forestalled, even if any of the long
touted 'alternatives' (cold fusion, nuclear power, photovoltaics etc.)
came to fruition, but NONE of them has.

Production is geared to cheap oil, even if there were
alternatives it will take two decades at least to relaunch the world economy
on a different energy path.  But there are no alternatives.

Imperialism cannot permit the Chinese economy in  particular to grow
at 10 percent a year. Within a decade, such growth would create Chinese
demand for oil equivalent to present day total world production! And if the
Chinese growth engine dragged Asia in its wake, then demand would increase
still further, but the truth is that world oil production is close to
peaking and can never be doubled.

The Indian bomb is one of imperialism's answers to the Chinese threat.
And it is more evidence of the unscalable historical impasse capitalism
has entered.

World capitalism is in the early stages of its deepest crisis, embracing
all spheres of society, culture and production, all social classes, states,
nations and regions. The capitalist world has entered a cul-de-sac from
which there can be no escape. The beast is writhing in its death-agony. Its
politicians, apologists and strongmen have no viable renewal policies.
Beneath the triumphal mask of hurrah-capitalism are the steel teeth of
what the Russian communists call samoyezd -- cannibal -- capitalism.
Behind the soft words and polite smiles of its salons and academies,
where the liturgy of neoliberalism was crafted, with its talk of open
markets, democracy and 'one-world' hides a policeman with a truncheon, and
behind him are the torturers with their shock-batons.
World capitalism is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn't.
Damned to economic meltdown, conflict and war if it fails to launch a
new accumulation cycle and to jerk free of the fetters now dragging it
down.

Damned to run into unassailable obstacles if it does recommence
accumulation, for the energy and resource deficits which have dogged the
world-system for more than two decades are now gigantic impediments to
renewed growth.

The optimism of hurrah-capitalism is based on nothing more solid than
the hypnotic repetition of mindless mantras: 'technology will find the
solutions'; 'the Information Revolution will sweep all before it';
'virtualisation and dematerialisation will solve its resource problems' and
last and most baleful: There Is No Alternative.

For if the doomsayers are right, and continued growth is unsustainable,
threatening the integrity of the biosphere on which all life depends, and if
resource limits are insurmountable, then what IS the alternative to
capitalism? What OTHER way from the impasse but the relentless
pursuit of technology, and if this is so, then surely it is necessary --
however regrettable -- to allow the markets to work unimpeded, retiring
old, energy inefficient, polluting capital, and concentrating capital in the
imperial heartlands whose powerful science and technology complexes
offer the only hope of survival, of feeding the next century's hungry
masses, of leapfrogging over technical obstacles?

In a word, if generalised prosperity is impossible with existing
technology -- and most now agree that it IS impossible to give the Asian
masses, for instance, Western living standards -- then surely it makes
sense to bow to the inevitable and acknowledge that the only hope for
these billions of people, is to put their trust in the galvanic powers of
western technology, and wait quietly for better times as capitalism
refreshes its cornucopia-machinery. The present generations in the
neocolonies will be sacrificed, true, but not for the benefit of the
hardworking West, but for the sake of their own unborn generations.

It is necessary to tax from these people the wealth necessary to refuel the
engines of innovation, strengthen and stabilise markets and western
socio-economic systems, and prepare to 'reculer pour mieux sauter'.
In any case, Socialism has been tried, has it not? Who seriously suggests
that the example of planning Soviet-style offers anything other than
monumental waste, bureaucratic corruption and stagnation, shortages,
grey uniformity, lack of dynamism and economic vitality? If the
problems are really so serious, who is better placed to solve them than
the enlightened social theorists of Harvard, Yale and Oxbridge, or the
powerful scientific enterprises of the metropoles? To throw away the
unquestioned benefits of freedom and capitalist enterprise in pursuit of
revolutionary will o'the wisps promoted by power-crazed sociopaths --
this is not sensible is it? What after all, does Communism mean, but
gulags, queues and unfreedom, in the midst of terrible pollution and
environmental disregard?

The mantras of capitalist apologetics will be heard until the moment the
ship finally sinks and the waves close over their heads.
First of all, it is capitalist science and technology, capitalist rapacity,
and the vast overgrowth of surplus population ('the most general law of
capitalism', as Marx called it) in the form of a colossal reserve army of
labour, which has created the world we now live in. It was precisely the
capitalist Green Revolution which triggered a second population
explosion among the dispossessed of the world, in just the same way that the
population of the first industrial countries exploded, as peasants were made
landless and forced into the cities.

In fact there is no surplus population in any absolute sense: there is only
a population which is surplus to capitalism's requirements. Nevertheless
world population will double to more than 10 billion in the coming
decades; and these new members of the world proletariat will not be
satisfied with virtual food or dematerialised roads, cars, homes, schools,
hospitals.

Crisis has its inescapable logic. It exhausts one potentiality for growth
after another. And in the same way, the working class and its allies
inevitably progress on a learning curve which contains as many troughs
as peaks. Communism is not just one option among others. If that was
the case, we should be wasting our time hoeing such a hard furrow.
Communism is inevitable because capitalist crisis is inevitable.
Nevertheless, its inevitability will only become transparent to the people
when all the other options have been tried. That is just in the nature of
things.

Left to itself capitalist crisis can only deepen, its contradictions become
still more explosive. Nothing can stop the deepening of capitalist crisis or
the sharpening of its contradictions; that may still not be so evident in
the first class salons of the west, but in the barrios and megacities of the
rest of the world, it is self-evident. The contradictions will continue to
ripen, and setbacks and defeats suffered by the proletariat only intensify
the process. That is the entire lesson of the fall of the socialist world
and what followed: the sequel was not the end of history and the final
triumph of the capitalist system, but a fantastic acceleration of the
necrosis of the tissues and fibre of capitalist society, world-wide.
And it is the lesson of the whole 250-year history of industrial
capitalism, this Lazarus which has stumbled by many zigzags and
deviations, and many unsuspected resurrections, into the present and final
crisis.

Whether the world likes it or not, we will have Communism because the
alternative is barbarism and the extinction of life. There is no
alternative... to Communism.

Whatever hardship the Soviet people endured, besieged and hounded by the
West and under the yoke of a Party which ceased to be Communist
and degenerated into one of humankind's most corrupt institutions,
nothing prepared the Soviet people for the holocaust of lives, hopes and
living standards which capitalism has brought them.
The only glimmer of hope in the nightmare visited on the world by
capitalism, is the hope offered by socialism: the hope of a world without
capitalism, without markets, without warring classes, and without a
Sword of Damocles hanging always over our heads.
This is the only future open to humanity. All other roads lead to ruin
and despair. Only communism offers hope, only communism offers life.

"No social order is ever destroyed before all the productive forces for
which it is sufficient have been developed, and  new superior relations of
production never replace older ones before the material conditions for
their existence have matured within the framework of the old society."
[Karl Marx, Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political
Economy (1859)]

That point has now been reached. We must bury capitalism because if
we don't, it will bury us.  Communism is not a utopia, but a material
necessity. This, the fundamental truth of scientific socialism, is no longer
a prediction, but a palpable fact.

Mark Jones
Moderator, Leninist-International listserv
November 1999

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