I'll just leave it at this for now, and I'm sure we'll have plenty of a chance to have a back and forth on these points.

Right.

Comrades, first, I want to thank you for inviting me to this discussion, to this debate.

We definitely agree that this is one of the most important debates amongst Marxists today.

We did already in the past 15 years, we published a number of books and pamphlets which did deal with these such issues like imperialism theory, allies of China, etc.

In this debate, obviously, we have to limit ourselves to some points.

And in this brief introduction, I just want to summarize our approach on this question in the form of five theses.

Look,