[lbo-talk] it's over - now the destruction really begins

[Philip Pilkington]

> Ha, well we sure showed those British/Germans/Japanese, eh?
>
> The system emerged from the 15-year afflictions of depression and world war
> stronger than ever. And that was when the USSR presented a credible
> alternative. If that didn't do the thing in, what could?
>
>
Eh, wasn't it because of the war that the capitalist economy was able to
emerge with a sufficient base to grow? I mean on the one hand you had the
Marshall Plan and its related branches and on the other you had a British
Labour government which was essentially pushing for post-war socialism qua
Keynesian spending through appeal to the collective mentality built up
during the war/blitz?

That's not even to mention the usage of the post-fascist structures in
Germany and Japan to suppress wages/labour in order to generate profit.