MULTILATERAL IMPERIALISM 67 colonial state and the neo-colonial international relations. But in the long run, these measures contribute to the emergence of national bourgeoisie and therefore to opposition against imperialist subjugation and to what is more important, the growth and strengthening of the proletariat, the gravcdiggers of national and international bourgeoisie. Therefore, while working for revolution, the industrial development in the Third World must be pushed forward even under imperialist conditions, under as advantageous circumstances as possible. For the dialectics of these developments is such that after all imperialism will be weakened by them. Dan Nabuderc has done excellent work in two regards: 1) He gives a thoroughgoing Marxist-Leninist analysis of capitalism and imperialism, from mercantile capitalism up to the present-day multilateral imperialism; 2) his critique of the so-called neo* Marxist radicals and revisionists is to the point and convincing. The analysis of the "periphery*9 is qualitatively beneath his theoretical level. The same holds true for his class analysis and his discourse on the world revolutionary process. The impression one gets is that Nabuderc did not yet make up his mind as to the consequences of certain phenomena of our day. It might be connected with his implicit sympathies with Maxist theories. These sympathies are also indicated by his remarks when he blames "revisionism" in Portugal for not performing the proletarian revolution (pp 278-229). One just wonders whether he is referring to the Communist Party of Portugal, which would be outright slander. The Political Economy of Imperialism can nevertheless certainly be used for political and scientific education, also at university level. The author demonstrates a respectable erudition, eloquence, lucidity and to the point argumentation. But, as said before, when using this book, certain inadmissible errors and omissions must be corrected. MIKLOS RACZ 1 New Times, No 16, April 1980, p 19. 2 Deutsche Volkszeitun^, \ December 1977.