Therefore, 'inter imperialist' or 'ultra imperialist' alliances, in the realities of the capitalist system, and not in the banal philistine phantasies of English parsons or of the German 'Marxist,' Kautsky, no matter what form they may assume, whether of one imperialist coalition against another, or of a general alliance embracing all the imperialist powers, are inevitably nothing more than a 'truce' in periods between wars.