People's History of Europe (Part 1 - WWI through WWII) w/ Raquel Varela
Guerrilla History
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What Is the Connection Between the War Economy and the German Revolution?
I'm wondering if you could elaborate a little bit more on this emergence of fascism, its connection in some ways with the war economy. Outside of the fascist zone from this socialist perspective and why it was the socialists were unable to mount effective kind of revolutionary movements. Well, thank you for the question. When we, the New Deal, the 29 crisis shown what Marx has predicted in capital in the beginning of 19th century crisis that Marx analyzes so well. There is a central contradiction that capitalism cannot solve. This is the tendency, the value law to profits, tendentially coming down.
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