As a democratic socialist I see parallels to August 1914 here. All the bourgeois governments of Europe divided into rival arrogant alliances , none to " make the world safe for democracy " but only to re-arrange inconvenient nation-state borders and global resources at the expense of POST-COMMUNIST Russia.

As a democratic socialist I see parallels to August 1914 here. All the bourgeois governments of Europe divided into rival arrogant alliances , none to " make the world safe for democracy " but only to re-arrange inconvenient nation-state borders and global resources at the expense of POST-COMMUNIST Russia. What does socialist internationalism say to this? A curse on all your houses ! How far can American war propaganda go to sell stale Wilsonian blather to the common people of our country ? The glory of it ! To die for a forever ( ? ) SOVEREIGN Ukraine ? Perhaps CZAR Putin will be replaced by a second Lenin , Lenin II . And a second Bolshevik Revolution which will appeal to the masses of Europe ? Capitalism has done nothing for the Russian people. As it has done nothing for working class Americans . [Counting down to Finland & Sweden’s NATO decision YOUTUBE.COM Counting down to Finland & Sweden’s NATO decision Will Finland and Sweden join NATO? Melissa Duggan on the looming ...]