Ideology and "Psychology", was Re: identifying with the enemy

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Jun 5 13:31:03 PDT 2001


http://www.themilitant.com/2001/6517/651749.html During the period just after World War II, Washington was blocked from pursuing this goal by the refusal of the GIs to go back to war, this time against former allies, the Soviet Union and the workers and peasants of China. Faced with a popular "Bring Us Home!" movement organized by the soldiers themselves, the imperialist rulers were politically forced to live up to their promises to demobilize the bulk of their armed forces.1

1. See "1945: When U.S. Troops Said 'No!'" by Mary-Alice Waters in New International no. 7.



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