[Marxism] an ex-super power in the making

[Charles Brown]

Sure hope US imperialism is in decline.

However, "super-power" is a US journalistic, pop poli "sci" category. 
The USSR didn't have an empire. It had to put the fascists "on ice". 
The Nazis and fascists from states in Eastern Europe waged literally the
biggest war in the history of humanity on the Soviet People.  It would
have been incredibly irresponsible to the Soviet People , who had
suffered 27 million dead ( usually casualties are more than the dead; so
how many casualties were there !?  hundreds of towns wiped out ;
gigantic economic destruction) to just shove the Germans and their
allies out of the SU ; but let the state powers in Eastern Europe and
Germany  remain standing , presumably to mount another invasion some
day.  Eastern Europe post WWII  was not an empire. It was an
appropriately and necessarily self-protective imprisonment of criminal
states. Could they really have just left them to rehabilitate themselves
? Lets get real.

 On the other hand, the diminution of the USSR's state might be an
early form of the withering away of a state.

Charles


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