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> CB: Aside from not being anti-racist or male supremecist, why aren't
> workers anti-capitalist ? Is capitalism in their interests, long or
> short term ? Why did workers go to face danger and die in Viet Nam
> for capitalism ? Was the war in their interests ?
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See Capitalism and Social Democracy by Adam Przeworski. The war turned out lots of union made death technologies, so it was in the "interest" of lots of workers. It would be interesting to know what wages and their increases were like for workers in the MIC during the War. Is any war in anybody's interest?
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CB: I see what you mean. I was speaking of the working class people who went into combat.
WWI, WWII, Viet Nam were in the interests of those big capitalists who were not endangered by combat, but profitted or were beneficiaries of the spoils. Why was the international banking nation of Switzerland a safe enclave even from the Nazis' invasions ? The whole international capitalist class benefitted from the crippling destruction of the Soviet Union in WWII and then Viet Nam, as the viability of the socialist alternatives to capitalism was drastically undermined by these wars on socialist countries.