America running White Empire was fine as long as the world (in blue) remained the size it was – and as long as they could cut communist rebellions down to size, making Hitler proud – but as the world grew 'bigger' this meant the relative size of America became smaller and smaller. The main thing about their horror of the falling rate of profit is the feeling that capitalist production meets in the development of its productive forces a barrier which has nothing to do with the production of wealth as such; and this peculiar barrier testifies to the limitations and to the merely historical, transitory character of the capitalist mode of production; testifies that for the production of wealth, it is not an absolute mode, moreover, that at a certain stage it rather conflicts with its further…