Weak Links?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

The power elite don't everywhere have the same quality and quantity 
of, and more importantly command over the loyalty of, armed forces; 
the same economic conditions; the same degree of ideological 
hegemony; etc.

*****   "The imperialist front was broken at its weakest link, Czarist Russia."

This is Lenin's splendid formula. Its meaning is that Russia was the 
most backward and economically weakest of all the imperialist states. 
That is precisely why her ruling classes were the first to collapse 
as they had loaded an unbearable burden on the insufficient 
productive forces of the country. Uneven, sporadic development thus 
compelled the proletariat of the most backward imperialist country to 
be the first to seize power.

<http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1928-3rd/ti03.htm>   *****

That was then.  Where are weak links today, and where is the weakest 
link -- within each nation and among nations?
-- 
Yoshie

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