[Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two

[Lüko Willms]

G K Milner (gkmilner at eftel.net.au) wrote on 2009-07-04 at 14:17:49 in  about 
Re: [Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two:
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> The participation of the USSR in World War Two would by itself, in my 
> opinion, require a different assessment from Marxists to the one they gave 
> to the First World War.   

  Sure, in the sense that there existed no workers state in the first phase of 
the interimperialist wars of the first half of the 20th century, whom the 
working class around the globe would defend unconditionally. 

  But this did not change the character of the war between the imperialist 
powers from being an interimperialist war of conquest or defence of former 
conquests from earlier predatory wars, nor did it change the struggle of 
oppressed nations, i.e. mainly the then existing colonies for their national 
sovereignty, i.e. to take the bounty, for which the imperalist robber barons 
fought among themselves, out of their hands. 

  This applies also to the fight between the various entrenched and upstarting 
imperialist predators for the control over the Pacific Ocean and the whole 
Pacific Rim. 

  
Cheers, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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