Re: Bartender Planned to Poison Speaker's Drink
Posted:
Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:46 pm
by The Dharma Bum
the danger presented by the soviet union was wildly overstated as a pretext to excuse western militarism
Re: Bartender Planned to Poison Speaker's Drink
Posted:
Thu Jan 15, 2015 12:06 am
by The Dharma Bum
i don't think terrorizing the population with the threat of war and total war were the only options available
i guess it depends on ones perspective in regard to class struggle.
either way, it wasn't the workers in the US or the USSR respectively that were odds with each other. Their interests were actually aligned as they are fellow members of the same class, just as the interests of the elite in both spheres were aligned because they are members of the same class.