Nationalist Militarism

[Brad DeLong <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:
>
> > I reserve to my own people the right to resort to
> military means (or any other) to put an end to this abject era of
> imperialist exaction and social crime that Argentina is passing
> through since 1975 at least..
>
> Fair enough. I am surprised, however, by your implication that you would
> count among the exercises of this right the diktats of oppressive military
> rulers.

Don't be surprised. Remember that when at the start of World War I
German socialists were given a choice between Kaiser Bill and the
SFIO, they went with the first.

It broke Lenin's heart to see how enthusiastically people he had
regarded as good internationalists put themselves into thrall to
generals and dictators who promised to shed the blood of people who
spoke a different language.

Why should you be surprised? Why should Argentinian socialists in
2000 be any different from German socialists in 1914?


Brad DeLong