David, Not my thesis either. I was responding simply to the suggestion that if Barbarossa had been better planned... etc.
As for what might have happened, if... What can I say? Has entertainment value, I guess. In Colussus Reborn, Glantz does a neat job of counterposing the forces Germany committed to its other fronts vs. the Eastern front; the forces the Allies deployed vs. the forces deployed by the USSR, and it's clear as can be where the emphasis was. Germany's war production kept increasing despite the "strategic bombing," strategic bombing being an oxymoron that belongs right up there with "military intelligence." "Strategic bombing" is an instrumentof terror against the civilian population and nothing more. Again, my only concern is this notion that if Barbarossa were better planned, if only Hitler had committed more divisions to the east, etc. etc. I have no interest in any speculations about what might have happened if............. If I remember correctly, the thread started with the issue of the "progressive" or possibly progressive nature of Churchill and other slimeball imperialist racist murdering slobs in allying with the USSR during WW2. Nothing progressive about that either. Simple opportunism born of necessity. ----- Original Message ----- From: "nada" <[email protected]> To: "David Schanoes" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] "WW2": interimperialist war to redivide the world, > S. Artesian, this is not Glantz's thesis as compared against a *victory* > against Britain. ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
