It is not exactly Marxism but, rather, the Leninist theory of imperialism and dependence that in our day has come to bring a coherent, convincing, and grandiose answer to Latin America's chronic inferiority complex. Victor Raul Haya de la Torre argued that Latin America offered the example of a hybrid and unrepresentative sort of capitalism, which could not be expected to fit the classic pattern of development that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had traced for France or Germany. The United States had become the keystone of world capitalism; its deep and complex relations with Latin America made it natural for the Communists to turn their attention to our subcontinent, and to use it as a testing ground for the Leninist theses. In any case, the Movement toward Socialism and other neo-Communist Latin-American movements that have been defining their strategy in conformity with "objective conditions" hold some trump cards in their effort to link Latin America to the Third World.