Message from @Timo)))

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2017-08-07 18:22:07 UTC  

albeit with varying severity

2017-08-07 18:22:58 UTC  

Do you understand my statement now? @Deleted User

2017-08-07 18:24:29 UTC  

"I don't count military intervention as the consequence of a country having a specific economic system"
But a country with a specific economic system would have a specific incentive to retain influence within a certain economic sphere? so I guess I understand your statement but it's incorrect

2017-08-07 18:26:34 UTC  

How do you make a distinction between a capitalistic intervention and a regular military intervention?

2017-08-07 18:26:54 UTC  

especially in the cold war

2017-08-07 18:27:04 UTC  

can you give me an example of what you think is a 'regular military intervention'?

2017-08-07 18:27:16 UTC  

take any example from history

2017-08-07 18:27:57 UTC  

so, German support for Austria during WWI, for example?

2017-08-07 18:28:05 UTC  

Sure

2017-08-07 18:29:03 UTC  

although that's a direct response to war close to their front

2017-08-07 18:31:25 UTC  

I guess because of cultural, geopolitical and constitutional alliances between Austria and Germany, which could exist if both countries collectivised their fuel allocation for example, whereas something like the Iraq War being motivated by oil would be considerably harder for a country with a socialist mode of production (wherein the ruling class cannot financially benefit from the war's enactment) to justify

2017-08-07 18:32:28 UTC  

Have some faith in Leninism my bois

2017-08-07 18:33:09 UTC  

But the allied forces profited from winning WWI greatly

2017-08-07 18:33:16 UTC  

As would Germany and Austria if they won

2017-08-07 18:33:20 UTC  

no question

2017-08-07 18:33:21 UTC  

they'd be richer

2017-08-07 18:33:31 UTC  

but that wasn't the primary incentive for fighting the war

2017-08-07 18:33:34 UTC  

an economic incentive!

2017-08-07 18:34:05 UTC  

What I'm arguing is that almost all military interventions have a positive economic incentive

2017-08-07 18:34:16 UTC  

incentive =/= consequence

2017-08-07 18:34:24 UTC  

Hard to distinguish one from a ''capitalist'' intervention

2017-08-07 18:34:43 UTC  

I could kill you for trying to kill me, and take your money, the money I could take wouldn't be my driving force behind killing you

2017-08-07 18:34:55 UTC  

it would be fear of destruction

2017-08-07 18:34:59 UTC  

Right, but the end result is the same

2017-08-07 18:35:31 UTC  

And as I already pointed out, the U.S was isolationist at the period in time they had the freest market

2017-08-07 18:36:03 UTC  

politics is a continuous process, there isn't an end result when you're talking about nations' motives for adopting certain command structures

2017-08-07 18:37:21 UTC  

we should hope that lessons from the past would inform the politics of the future, it's perhaps utopic but as a socialist perspective to reduce the intentions and reasons behind war we could eventually see a reduction of said wars

2017-08-07 18:38:55 UTC  

At the cost of totalitarianism in countries

2017-08-07 18:39:04 UTC  

Anyway I'm done, too much time spend here

2017-08-07 18:56:03 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/308950154222895104/344191980647219201/image.png

2017-08-07 18:56:04 UTC  

What do you think of him?

2017-08-07 18:56:20 UTC  

hasn't read you

2017-08-07 18:56:26 UTC  

Ikr

2017-08-07 18:56:35 UTC  

isn't he antifa?

2017-08-07 18:56:39 UTC  

Idk

2017-08-07 18:56:55 UTC  

I mean I'm willing to work with them if they work with me

2017-08-07 18:57:43 UTC  
2017-08-07 18:57:52 UTC  

Xd

2017-08-07 18:57:56 UTC  

Well

2017-08-07 18:58:09 UTC  

I'm going to unite the YouTube left one day

2017-08-07 18:58:36 UTC  

What do you think?