why does roy believe that the awakening of the east is essential to the undermining of the capitalist world order?

Answer: The world revolution, in order to accomplish its great mission must cross the borders of the so called Western Countries where capitalism has reached its climax. Until very recently this truth was almost entirely unknown among the revolutionaries of Europe and America, who hardly gave a moment's thought to the social and economic conditions of the Asiatic generally. It was generally maintained that, owing to their industrial backwardness, the hundred's of millions of the masses in the East would not count for anything in the great struggle between the exploiter, and the exploited. Consequently the "World" of the world revolution was limited to Europe and America,

The author believes that by cutting off access to Asian wealth, the capitalistic West would fall.

The world was kept in its state through the use of violence on the part of European colonial powers.

Colonial areas were kept purposely without industrialization to make them easier to exploit