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If it is true that socialism ends war, war between socialist states is a contradiction in terms. Such wars, if they occur, therefore throw up a major problem of history and theory: either the notion that socialism ends war is false, or the states involved are not socialist. There is no third way, un...

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Published in:Marxism today 1979-08, Vol.23 (8), p.238
Main Authors: Sedley, Stephen, Halliday, Fred, Ogden, Dennis, Stansfield, Jean, Gittings, John
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Summary:If it is true that socialism ends war, war between socialist states is a contradiction in terms. Such wars, if they occur, therefore throw up a major problem of history and theory: either the notion that socialism ends war is false, or the states involved are not socialist. There is no third way, unless we are prepared to reconsider our political language and to examine how far we have been guilty of adjusting reality to correspond with an unscientific version of marxist theory.
ISSN:0025-4118