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socialist_n_TN

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10. Generally agree, but............

Wed Jun 1, 2016, 03:16 PM

Jun 2016

I would also add to your second paragraph, that American "best financial and political interests" is what makes the most money and profit for the bourgeoisie.

Wars in the last two centuries are about economics and making money for capitalists whether it's in arming both sides and making profit or from profits made in rebuilding what they have destroyed by their wars. Marx and Lenin both noted that war is one way that capitalism destroys dead capital and restarts the system after it reaches a "no growth" impasse.

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