re: #230 Joel

Yeah what about the Left Communists who were against aid to Britain until Operation Barbarossa?

Capitalism was the system that Marx originally saw Communism as having to overthrow and transcend; it was only after Hitler’s betrayal of the Hitler-Stalin Pact that the Soviets grasped that Nazism was their more immediate existential threat.

Not that capitalism wasn’t an existential threat to Soviet communism; we did, after all, eventually effect their dissolution.