ementation, including policing of the
territories lying within the frontiers of the nation, empire or
civilization, plus contacts and relationships with territories lying
outside the frontiers: in short, with the success or failure, the
domination or subordination of the territory under consideration.

Structurally and functionally a civilization cannot remain static. It
must expand or contract. If it expands, crossing frontiers and
penetrating areas heretofore considered foreign or alien, and proposes
to remain in those alien territories, it must have sufficient means at
its disposal to continue the administration of its home territory and at
the same time to take on the administration of the newly acquired
foreign territory.

Home territory administration has as its broad purpose the utilization
of available means to attain its ends and serve its interests.
Administration of areas into which the home forces are penetrating must
attain the same ends and serve the same interests on the "you work--I
eat" axiom. Unless the newly acquired territory can attain those ends
and serve those interests it is a liability, not an asset, and its
continued existence will pose a threat to the expansionist venture.

Natural resources, plus labor power, plus effective management and
direction must be integrated in the interests of the entire enterprise.
Self determination is of secondary consequence, coming into play only
after the interests of the whole have been assured and safeguarded.

There is of course the collective principle under which the interests of
the whole can be best served through the cooperation of its component
elements. But this is a horse of quite another color. It presupposes the
willingness of the respective parts to enter voluntarily into a
cooperative relationship. Sociologically speaking this is the antithesis
of the situation we have been considering: expansion and exploitation in
the interests and for the purposes of the expanding forces. So long as
expansion and exploitation are accepted and practiced as the basic
principles of any community, so long independence and self-determination
will be irrelevant and inimical to the dominant elements in the nation,
empire or civilization under consideration.

Under the "you work--I eat" formula natural resources will be utilized
in the manner best calculated to advance the interests of the ruling
oligarchy. Who will be the judge, jury and executioner in the case?