Message from @Timo)))
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How do you make a distinction between a capitalistic intervention and a regular military intervention?
especially in the cold war
can you give me an example of what you think is a 'regular military intervention'?
take any example from history
so, German support for Austria during WWI, for example?
Sure
although that's a direct response to war close to their front
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
Have some faith in Leninism my bois
But the allied forces profited from winning WWI greatly
As would Germany and Austria if they won
no question
they'd be richer
but that wasn't the primary incentive for fighting the war
an economic incentive!
What I'm arguing is that almost all military interventions have a positive economic incentive
incentive =/= consequence
Hard to distinguish one from a ''capitalist'' intervention
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
it would be fear of destruction
And as I already pointed out, the U.S was isolationist at the period in time they had the freest market
politics is a continuous process, there isn't an end result when you're talking about nations' motives for adopting certain command structures
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
At the cost of totalitarianism in countries
Anyway I'm done, too much time spend here
What do you think of him?
hasn't read you
Ikr
isn't he antifa?
Idk
I mean I'm willing to work with them if they work with me
he's fence-sitting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB7B76SrJfA
Xd
Well
I'm going to unite the YouTube left one day
What do you think?
you should probably gas muke
and make Pierre a comissar
Idk