[Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two

[S. Artesian]

Thanks to Shane for the information.

Well, the discussion has certainly taken a twist, no?  From the attempt to 
come to grips about what really was different about  WW2, to speculations 
about...speculations.

Graham--, I expect you to disagree, but I expect you to disagree on the 
terms you utilized to open this discussion-- and that means-- "property 
relations."

So if you want to claim that it was the qualitative difference of WW2 vs WW1 
that provided the impetus to a international anti-colonial national 
liberation struggle-- you need to do that with an analysis of property 
relations before, during, and after WW2, and exactly what the changes in 
property relation meant, and mean, in the former colonies, and how WW2 
represented, triggered, fed that conflict between means and relations of 
production in the then/now former colonies.

The history of the 20th century contains numerous examples of revolutions 
that restructure, reconfigure, and radically so, capitalist property 
relations without overthrowing capitalism-- Mexico's revolutionary struggles 
1910-1920 being the case that leaps to mind.

Much needs to be sorted out in this discussion of WW2, but dividing the 
camps into "progressive" or "humane," vs. regressive, inhumane  doesn't do 
the trick.



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