• jol
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    4 months ago

    I strongly believe killing Hitler would not have solved things.

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      4 months ago

      Yep. The rise of Fascism was a result of class dynamics brought on by the declining impact of imperialism on the rate of profits.

      Hitler was just an opportunist, not some Great Man of History.

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      Hitler was still popular in Germany… in the 1960s. Being freshly dead doesn’t seem to wane someone’s popularity it seems

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      And therefore wasn’t any sort of improvement.

      That’s the metric, right? One action fixes everything, or don’t bother.