What is the context in which you have brought this up?
I am checking myself whether I have misunderstood Louis Proyect's position, or whether as I suspect he is not being rigorous in his analysis, and is being evasive in his clarification.
In his essay on "Zimmerwald" he calls for revolutionary defeatism for ones own bourgeoisie, and wrote:
>For the Trotskyists, WWII was a complex phenomenon that incorporated 4
>wars in one:
>
>1. An interimperialist war between plunderers in which the United States
>and England were just as reactionary as Germany and Japan.
>
>2. A just war of self-defense by the Soviet Union against Hitlerism.
>
>3. A just war of oppressed nationalities against their colonial overlords
>whether allied or axis, including Japan, England and France.
>
>4. A just war by working-people and peasants in Nazi-occupied Europe. The
>Resistance in France was the best example of such a just war.
>
>....
>
>Marxist opposition to World War II was principled and correct, but it did
>not stand much chance of gaining a wide following. This should not present
>a problem for us. We seek the revolutionary kernel of Marxism. All else is
>besides the point.
So what was the post that prompted you to submit this now, Michael?
Chris Burford
London