Deathride

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:17 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Mosier is arguing that World War II was fought for economics, not for
> political or ideological reasons. That is not a new thesis, to be
> sure, but his is a creative approach, holding that not only the
> motivations but also the maneuvers of the war were almost entirely
> economic in nature."
>
> http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/07/08/deathride_shatters_some_myths_about_hitler_stalin_and_world_war_ii/
> ______________
>
> GR notes as such but Pynchon's mind was elsewhere, critiquing thru the
> lens of WW2 an exploitative western (now mostly American post-war
> foreign policy). However, I think the above notion is dangerous stuff
> (for scholars) in the fact that the underpinnings of everything Hitler
> did was ideological-based: essentially a rabid antisemitism and
> bolshevism. It is hard for me to believe that historians can seriously
> argue that the war was motivated solely for economic reasons. There
> were economic reasons for war but they emerged from the Nazi's
> ideological worldview.
>
> In actual fact, one could argue that the Pacific War against Japan is
> a better model for this theory.

Thanks!  Cf. ...

http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/articles/waroftheworld/index.html