The last great cause?

[The American]

Do you think there will be future conflicts like the Spanish Civil War where things like the International Brigades were created and socialists flock en masse to defend a socialist government or was the Spanish Civil War the "last great cause"?

[Princess Luna]

there has always been and always will be causes worth fighting for , the only difference is will people around the world have the guts to stand up and fight for whats right?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I don't think that it would be impossible,but still it would be unlikely.I would have a hard time seeing a socialist organization trying to convince their members to travel to some forlorn part of the world and fight,and potentially die,for a conflict which isn't on their home soil.

[bailey_187]

I don't think that it would be impossible,but still it would be unlikely.I would have a hard time seeing a socialist organization trying to convince their members to travel to some forlorn part of the world and fight,and potentially die,for a conflict which isn't on their home soil.

the bourgeoisie manages to.

[thesadmafioso]

The political environment of today has changed a great deal from that of the early 20th century. Leftism is not as prominent a force in the world as it once was, and I can't exactly seeing a similar situation arising anytime soon. The various different conditions which were in place to allow for the international involvement in the Spanish Civil War would simply be far too difficult to replicate for such a conflict to be considered a plausible occurrence.

[PhoenixAsh]

In the name of socialism? War has changed dramtically. I has made great technological "advances" and amateurs simply are easy targets. civilians flocking towards war thus need to step over somewhat bigger tresholds.

So I doubt it.

One could argue that socialism is not a determining force for this anymore. Religious fanaticism and nationalism seem, when you look to the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be able to muster somewhat slightly resembling international brigades. However this is neither socialist, nor revolutionary in nature.

That said...

The anti-globalization movement within the confines of civil disobedience in a non-war environment is still international in nature.

[Savage]

The class struggle is constant, not a day goes by without it. Every so often we have small victories but the destruction of the bourgeois state on the world scale is going to take some time.

[Tommy4ever]

As depressing a prospect as it might be. Such international solidarity is, if not dead, dormant across the world. :(

[Rooster]

I think with the advance of globalisation, this sort of thing is much more of a possibility