[lbo-talk] "Knee-Jerk Anti-Imperialism" Re: Two Takes

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It's sure encouraging to know that people at Berkeley read so carefully. Every time I encounter something like this I marvel that I didn't get tenure at a good school. The standards are obviously not high.  The quoted passage occurred as part of a paragraph _defending_ the United States' defense against attack in the Pacific war. I _expressly_ said (twice, since Shane also missed it!) that the war was imperialist but justified by just war theory, and that a victory for democratic imperialism was preferable to a victory for quasi-fascist Japonese imperialism. I pointed out that virtually all socialists at the time of every stripe felt the same way, and most of military age signed up to fight.  Now we will see who is the next PhD who can't read. jks

Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:>The war against Japan was an imperialist war plain and simple, 
>between two imperiali powers;

China views it very differently. The near-genocide Japan perpetrated 
on China during WWII approached (but did not match) what the Nazis 
tried to do to the Russians. The Japanese fascist state was an 
extremely ugly thing. I am surprised that so many people avert their 
gaze from it.

Brad DeLong

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