75 years on, we're unable to celebrate the end of fascism because our governments have ordered us to stay inside.

was the second world war caused by the same factors as the first? absolutely, yes. but, where the first world war was an aimless slaughter for the capitalist elite, and revolution was justified across the board, nazism presented itself as an evil that was greater than capitalism.

it's legitimately hard to read some of the leftist writing from the period, from people that weren't able to see nazism for the singular threat that it was.

decades later, we have a similar problem on the left, with it's inability to see the nature of the threat posed by radical islam. and, it's just a matter of time before we need to repeat history.

for now, i guess we're all stuck inside, celebrating the world's greatest triumph, in the greatest of irony.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/pers-m08.html