[Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two

[S. Artesian]

The bottom line here is that there's nothing new in GK's take on WW2.  It's 
the standard bourgeois analysis:  a struggle for civilization, a struggle 
against beasts, a struggle of the more human against the less humane.  GK 
adds the proviso, of course, that the cause of the war was capitalism, but 
the proviso is pro forma, there only to be discarded as a basis for further 
analysis.

Here's what I think would be an interesting path for analysis:  Yes, the war 
was caused by capitalism.  The war was ENABLED by the defeat of the 
proletarian revolution throughout Europe and Asia, a defeat embodied in the 
survival of the USSR.   The war itself combines those latter 2 elements, and 
whatever we say about the emergence, and expansion of the USSR's power on 
the international stage, and the victory of Chinese national liberation 
revolution, we have to recognize the defeat of the prospects for socialist 
revoluton in that expansion, and that victory.

Certainly the bourgeoisie were liquidated in localities, only to be propped 
up internationally.

I can feel comrade Waistline wincing.