Re: AUT: RE: antiwar movement

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

S F wrote:

>And Germany and Italy "broke unity" with the other European states
>prior to wwII.  What is your point?  Imperialist war is a necessity
>of capital, maintaing peace and unity between nations is not,and
>when there is peace is is only building the foundation for future
>war.  As well, the lining up of different European states against
>the US ("old europe") and the increasing economic battles between
>the two blocs (EU and USA), further shows the unchanging imperialist
>nature of capitalism.

You sound like Lenin's corpse speaking from his monument. Have you
noticed that there havesn't been any significant tensions among the
major imperial powers since 1945? Sure they've had some spats, but
nothing even remotely approaching the kind of wars Lenin wrote about.
I'd be reflexively suspicious of any formulation that used the word
"unchanging" anyway.

Doug


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