[Marxism] A mistake?

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

Walter resends:

And if Marx believed
the British Empire should invade India, or Spain Mexico –since, to
paraphrase him, "it would help strengthen the productive forces which
would lead those colonies to develop and organize their own
proletariat, and the conditions for revolution would be thus
created"– then the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were a necessary
evil worth underpinning or, to take a case in point, it was essential
to "develop a national bourgeoisie as a steppingstone to the future
creation of an ideal setting for revolution". Such absurd conclusions
can only come from ignorant fools.

Shouldn´t the above read "or the US Mexico"? While the prospect of a
Spanish invasion to Mexico was ridiculous in Marx´s times, an invasion
of Mexico took place more or less by the same days. It was the US
invasion. Led mainly by Southerner slaveowners, by the way. And with
the strongest opposition of A. Lincoln.
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Néstor Gorojovsky
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