The War as Revolution

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The old landmarks are gone: the radicals have become conservative; the reactionaries of the world have become its revolutionists. The Adolf Hitler revolution has found American intellectuals, as it found intellectuals elsewhere, unprepared to understand, to resist, or to transform it. The possession of the Low Countries and France and the recent settlement in the Balkans have placed in Hitler’s hands vast economic resources that will give him for some time to come the edge in what is, in essence, a war of factories. The capacity of Hitler’s empire to survive must therefore be assessed in long-run rather than short-run terms. If Britain, with the increasing aid of American factories, can manage to hold out against him over the span of several years, then Hitler will face problems of increasing tension within his own empire. The economic contradictions the world over which made his rise possible will begin to operate against him.

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