File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9706, message 128


Date: 09 Jun 97 03:09:14 EDT
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: pefidious Germany


dear  Chris  and Louis P,,

Chris B and Louis P can rummage thru the archival
papers  of capitalist (and state capitalist) Nazi and Russian diplomats
and this can be of some use considering  understanding the
machiavellian tactics and strategies of imperialist powers,
but it misses the key political and economic issues/contradictions
that unleasehed the 2nd  imperialist  world war.

Both Nazi apologists  on the right and USSR apologists on the
left all cover up the class nature of their conniving and
predatory plans to enslave millions of workers  and
butcher millions more , incuding civilians thru armed 
aggression.


In fact, it was the  imperialist nature of the Nazi and Russian
societies and the needs of their national capitals expansion 
to  'compete'  which impelled them to unite to divvy up E. Europe
culminating in the 1939 "Pact of Non-aggression" Spheres
of influnece deals have a military/political and economic basis 
from a marxist point of view and attempts to separate these
are at the least a retreat to bourgeios historical  method.

Indeed not only   did the pact give the  Nazis' the last  green light
to attack Poland but  also for  the USSR to sieze eastern Poland
as their share of booty.

you do not win workers from a weaker  capitalist regime (Poland, etc)
  to socialism by  bombing their homes and  sticking them with
bayonets..
So it is clear  that this had nothing to do with strengthening 
the workers cause nationally or internationally . 

Russia also got to occupy the Baltics in 1940 out of secret 
codicils of the '39 pact. Russia also got Bessarabia from 
Rumania, increased bi-lateral trade with the Reich  and 
transfers of important  German industrial technology .

The Nazi reich in turn also  got cheaper oil and gas 
 and other  raw materials delivered from the USSR to grease
 up its huge war machine. 
It also got a couple hundred German communists
turned over to the Gestapo   who had previously fled 
the reich to the USSR . Gee, i wonder how they fared!?

There are other parts of the secret codicils in the pact
that  some other posters on the list may want to fill in
that info.

The lucrative  nature of the pact may also partially explain why 
the Russian rulers did not think they would be  double-
crossed and attacked in June '41. Of course there were 
the military tactics too, The Russians feeling confident that
the fascists would not strike them until they had won outright
the war against the British in the western theatre and 
that the Nazis would never undertake a 2 front war against
major industrial powers.
Also i think the USSR had concluded a similar  mini-pact 
with  Japan in April '41 and actually knew from its intelligence
service in Japan (Victor Serge, etc) that Japanese imperialism 
would soon strike at the British, American  and Dutch  
colonial posessions in the Far east.

In any case this manuvering was clearly the diplomacy
of imperialist states which were all counterrevolutionary.

Neil











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