[lbo-talk] Weimar and the US, Trump and Hitler

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Dec 14 16:02:49 PST 2015


On Dec 14, 2015, at 6:36 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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> "Germany was prostrate, disarmed, and bankrupt, humiliated by the Versailles Treaty, with its industrial heartland in the Ruhr under military occupation. Hyperinflation was rampant. The capitalist system was tottering, racked by widespread industrial strife and threatened by the rapid growth of a mass communist party."
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> But that was 1923, and the Ludendorff/Hitler "Beer Hall Putsch" was an abject failure. By 1933 none of that was the case--Germany suffered from much the same depression as, for instance, the USA, and had already been substantially rearmed thanks to the secret clauses of the Rapallo treaty and Stalin's craving for a German alliance against the British and French.
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> "Neither is there any incentive for US corporate leaders to throw their weight behind Trump"
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> This is indeed an understatement. Corporate control over the "respectable" institutions of government is near total, and any deviations there can be easily corrected (as with JFK) by the Deep State. If they do let him get the Repugnicon nominatiopn, that would only be in order to produce a real landslide for their favorite whore, Frau Clinton.
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Shane Mage

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