• Anarcho-BolshevikEnglish
    411·
    11 months ago

    I don’t understand this argument either. Studying Fascism for several years I have had to grapple with numerous complex topics, such as why the Fascist bourgeoisie adopted antisemitism, why the Third Reich allied with Imperial Japan, why the Polish ruling class wouldn’t officially ally with the Fascists, and more. I can tell you that the subject of Palestine is not especially complex.

    • QueerCommie
      361·
      11 months ago

      Ukraine was way more complicated than this and they acted like it was simple. Now they can’t see an obvious “bad guy” staring straight at them.

    • urshanabi [he/they]
      111·
      11 months ago

      For those of us who don’t know (like me) could you explain the bit about the Polish ruling class and not officially allying with Fascists?

      • Anarcho-BolshevikEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        Since the pact [Józef] Beck refused to join provided solely for opposition to the international organization of Communism, and [Warsaw] was vehemently anti‐Communist as well as on the least friendly terms possible with the Soviet Union, why the reluctance of [Warsaw] to join and why the insistence of [Berlin] that she do so?

        The answer to the question of [Warsaw’s] attitude is that adherence to the Anti‐Comintern Pact was seen as a form of policy subservience to Germany, a subservience not only in regard to the Soviet Union but in every other respect as well. This was no idle speculation on Beck’s part. Once [Warsaw] took the step [Berlin] wanted, she would be at [Berlin’s] mercy because she would have ruptured her tie to France while exposing herself to the wrath of her great eastern neighbor.

        It was, of course, this very subservience that Hitler wanted. For his ambitions further east he needed either Poland’s acquiescence or that country’s destruction; any truly independent Poland would be a bar to his aims, and in the immediate future he especially wanted Poland quiet while he settled with England and France.

        (Source.)