ABSTRACT
Lenin denounced the social-chauvinists of the Second International for always trying to make Belgium a case in point to justify the stand of the Belgian Socialists and, by extension, their own, for Belgium, they said, was a neutral state under German attack. Lenin maintained that an era is the sum total of multifarious phenomena, both typical and atypical, big and small, including the phenomena and wars occurring in both advanced and backward countries. Imperialist war is a typical, but not the only, phenomenon in the epoch of imperialism. The vast upheavals and great divisions of the 1960s led to the formation of three worlds which are interconnected and mutually contradictory. Some developed countries in the Second World, though oppressing and exploiting the Third World countries, are, in varying degrees, being controlled, threatened and bullied by one or the other of the two superpowers.
