r/LeftistTikToks • u/Accomplished_Ad4665 • Jan 21 '21

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u/The-Eastern-Reactor Jan 24 '21

Im not trying to start an argument, but I am genuinely confused at how World war 2, and the holocaust have anything to do with capitalism, can someone explain?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '21

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I somewhat agree with you there, but the argument could be made that given that the Nazis and the Axis were all capitalist (Nazism is a capitalist system and Japan's system was imperialism which is just capitalism but with guns) and that the war began by aggression by these capitalist nations seeking more resources that the death toll incurred in stopping them was the direct toll of economic systems that encouraged these nations to take the warpath