Absolutely nothin
The sharp reduction in income inequality that we observe in almost all the rich countries between 1914 and 1945 was due above all to the world wars and the violent economic and political shocks they entailed (especially for people with large fortunes). It had little to do with the tranquil process of intersectoral mobility described by Kuznets.
- Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Is it resetting the rate of profit or is it just opening new avenues that are still subject to the same rule? We're already getting to the point of outsourcing war production to a certain extent yeah?
And/or lining the pockets of the bourgeois via crisis capitalism :sadness:
Currently reading "Foundations of Leninism" by Stalin, and he felt that WWI was critical in turning the peasantry against the bourg liberal class and into the warm arms of the proletarian revolution. A key part of the strategy was the proletarian party being extremely organized and proven to be dependable.
