The increase of corporate American power after World War II led to deepening economic crisis, as well as increasing antagonism between capitalist plunderers and the working class. The fascist American regime had launched a fraudulent “threat of communism” hysteria so as to better justify their suppression of democracy in America. As a result, the US imperialists needed to maintain a state of constant war, both to crush dissent at home and to justify plunder abroad—all under the slogans of “peace” and “cooperation.”