[Marxism] J. Robert Oppenheimer documentary to airon PBS tonight

[S. Artesian]

But I asked a question that you have not answered-- and I asked it because 
the US in the run up to WW2 and after exerted considerable imperialist 
pressure on Brazil and Bolivia to ally with the Allies and break economic 
relations with Germany.

This issue is not quite so simple as "this guy Hitler running around shoving 
people into ovens," given the deep connections between the Allies and the 
Axis prior to the outbreak of hostilities, and moreover, the fact that.. 
left in the hands of the US, UK, the Kuomingtang, and the Soviet Union, the 
toll taken would be taken on the workers, on the prospects for revolution--  
bleeding them and it dry, a fact that was played out in the considerable 
delay of the "Allies" to open the western front in Europe-- hoping against 
hope that Stalin would bleed out  while  engaging most of Germany's 
military.

This is a difficult question.  I was never satisfied, completely, with 
Trotsky's formulations, and I think we might be able to shed some light on 
the issues if we look at what Marxists in the colonies experienced-- would 
love to hear from the comrades in India on this issue.
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From: "Tom Cod" <tcod at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Marxism] J. Robert Oppenheimer documentary to airon PBS 
tonight