Hello Walt, Hobsbawn's book on the short 20th century sees the two world wars as one war with a truce. That makes sense to me. WWI didn't settle the conflict between Germany and Great Britain. LP's book reference on the origin of WWI is good. The Geopolitical control of EuroAsia is also important in the realm of reasons. See Monthly Review. thanks, Doyle Saylor On Jun 10, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Walt Byars wrote:
What are some good Marxist books or articles on the origins of ww1 and ww2? For the former, isn't the idea that the LTRPF caused capitalist nations to need to have foreign markets. However, they would rather have exclusive trading relations with other nations, so they entered into colonial relations with other ocuntries rather than neoliberal free trade or what ever. And then the cpaitalist nations fought amongst themselves over who would have which colonies? I have no idea about Marxist discussions of ww2's origins, although I do know a bit about the rise of fascism.
