I doubt any of this ever entered Hitler's head. Anyway, didn't Britain and the US and USSR and France try to avoid the war as much as possible? Chamberlain wasn't thinking "yeah, war! now we get to destroy stuff!"
--- On Mon, 3/9/09, Charles Brown <cdb1003 at prodigy.net> wrote:
> From: Charles Brown <cdb1003 at prodigy.net>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] it's over - now the destruction really begins
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 9:26 PM
> CB: Maybe the idea is that war can be one form
> of creative destruction and depression
> is another; not so much that depression
> causes war ? A depression is a
> devalorization itself.
> Great Depression was devalorization.
> WWII was revalorization for the US,
> and further devalorization (creative destruction)
> for Europe.
>
> War also is a way to pit the workers
> of different nations against each
> other to avoid revolution within a nation.
> Thus the Bolsheviks opposed the war
> adamently, and criticized the German
> Social Democrats.
> It back fired in Russia in WWI 'cause
> they had Bolsheviks.
> US Cold War and hot wars in
> the same period had this motive
> especially.
>
> Also, post WWII imperialist wars were to
> open markets or reopen markets in
> former colonies and semi-colonies.
>
>
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