Industrial production decided WWII in favor of developed economies over fascist regimes

Evidence

As usually happens in our disagreements over practical matters, we have both been proved right. My bourgeois thesis that Hitler could not last has been proved correct, although with a delay so long as to render it ironical. In other words: the productive forces of the economically more developed countries have proved stronger than the heights of technology and terror achieved by the `latecomer’: in accordance with the general historical tendency, the war has been won by industry against the military. By corollary, however, your thesis on the historical power of fascism is also true, except that this power has changed places, just as Europe became bourgeois after the fall of Napoleon … the young, enterprising bankrupt has sold his business to a stronger company. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1641

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the economic determinism of historical materialism and connects to readings on how industrial capacity predicts war outcomes. — connects to: World War I victory hinged on industrial production capacity — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 118; Italy entered the war far weaker industrially than Britain — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 119; The Allies saw concentrated heavy industry as the precondition for German war-making. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 505

Broader Connections

• World War I victory hinged on industrial production capacity #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 118