[Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

Lüko Willms escribió:
> 
>   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. 

Not only that. If we consider the Soviet Union from what remains of all 
its struggle, it is exactly a defensive apparatus which still struggles 
"to take the bounty, for which the imperialist robber barons fought 
among themselves, out of their hands".

In this sense, the most enduring part of the October Revolution is its 
"national" side, the fact that it was _also_ a national revolution 
against imperialist predation of a decaying multinational Empire.

Lenin was so astonishly right in his "imperialist nations / oppressed 
peoples" thesis that in the end it became applicable to the peoples of 
the former Tsarist Empire as well.