Re: bombs

[Jorn Andersen <ccc6639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Cockshott wrote:

> Jorn:
> Do you really think that a working class could use atomic bombs
> for any good? Nuclear weapons are offensive weapons which mainly
> kill *people* (i.e. workers). How could a workers' state argue
> at the same time as it uses nuclear weapons that those same workers
> should fight their own rulers and not a foreign workers' state?
> I think it's impossible ...
> Paul C
> ------
> If the USSR had not acquired the bomb by the end of the 40s, can
> you doubt that the US would have used nuclear weapons in the Korean
> war?

Jorn:
They probably would - but that doesn't say anything about
what workers could or should do with nuclear arms.
Unless of course you think Stalin's Russia was some kind
of state with workers in control? I don't.


Yours

Jorn Andersen

IS
Denmark




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