Seventy-five years since the end of World War II in Europe

[wsws.org]

{The trauma, outrage and disgust provoked by the unspeakable crimes and cruelties committed during the Second World War deeply anchored the conviction among wide sections of the German and world population: “No more fascism! No more war!” But three quarters of a century after the end of the war, fascism and war are imminent global dangers once again.}

{The US president openly sympathises with fascist militias in the United States and right-wing dictators around the world, and is threatening Venezuela, Iran and even nuclear-armed China with war. He is supported in this by the opposition Democrats.}

{Right-wing extremist professor Jörg Baberowski began the rehabilitation of the Nazis six years ago with his comment that Hitler was “not vicious.” He was defended by the university administration, the media and politicians, while the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP—Socialist Equality Party), which criticised him, was placed on the Secret Service’s list of anticonstitutional organisations. Baberowski was due to have given a keynote speech at the main commemoration of the end of the Second World War at the memorial in Torgau, Saxony. His appearance was prevented only by the coronavirus, which forced the cancellation of the event.}

These type of people are in power right here at home my fellow Americans. And they are both establishment parties! Don't be mistaken! The shit is just getting deeper and deeper with time around the globe.

{The overwhelming majority of the population in Germany and internationally opposes the return to militarism and fascism. But opposition is insufficient to prevent another catastrophe. It is necessary to have a clear understanding of their causes and a political perspective to fight them. The lessons drawn from the Second World War show that the struggle against fascism and war is inseparable from the struggle against capitalism. It requires the mobilisation of the international working class to fight for a socialist programme.}

The continuance of illogically voting for the lesser evil in the US will NOT separate us from this struggle! Further compliance to this futile system is a total lack of understanding of their cause and political perspective due to the conditioning from their own compliant media.

{Trotsky insisted that the Second World War was triggered by the same causes as the First: the struggle between the major capitalist nation-states for global hegemony in an increasingly integrated world; the contradiction between the world economy and the nation-state system upon which capitalism is based; and the fundamental incompatibility of socialised productive forces with private ownership of the means of production.

Already in the summer of 1934, five years prior to the Second World War, Trotsky warned:

The same causes, inseparable from modern capitalism, that brought about the last imperialist war have now reached infinitely greater tension than in the middle of 1914. The fear of the consequences of a new war is the only factor that fetters the will of imperialism. But the efficacy of this brake is limited. The stress of inner contradictions pushes one country after another on the road to fascism, which, in its turn, cannot maintain power except by preparing international explosions. All governments fear war, but none of the governments has any freedom of choice. Without a proletarian revolution, a new world war is inevitable.}

This would suggest an opinion I have made here on a few occasions. In which I believe we are marching towards again today. The world ruling class built on the backs of higher oligarch families centuries ago are on a quest to consolidate power and control. As austerity measures have reduced socialized structures, colonialism has been ravaging the globe within perpetual warring, people around the globe have began to stand up, socialism is becoming loud speak again, it must be quelled.

For us in the US all sense of global protest in the media has been silenced. Expansions of warring have been silenced. Can I get a----Africa? Standing idle and silent as war on Yemen reengages while this virus takes hold. Israel heightens its attack on the Palestinians. Silence on the recent illegal Venezuela coup attempt by an American private security company. Moving warships into the area to provoke Iran while they struggle with the virus.

{Hitler’s personality influenced the course of events, but it was not the cause for the war. The real question to be asked was how it was that an anti-Semitic psychopath from the gutter of Vienna’s backstreets rose to become leader of Germany. The answer is clear: the ruling elite needed Hitler and his fascist movement as a battering ram against the socialist strivings of the working class and to prepare a second imperialist war.

“This German epileptic with a calculating machine in his skull and unlimited power in his hands did not fall from the sky or come up out of hell: he is nothing but the personification of all the destructive forces of imperialism,” wrote Trotsky of Hitler in 1940.

Britain and the United States did not wage a war to defend democracy against fascism, as they claimed, but rather for the imperialist redivision of the world.}