Irredentism is not imperialism, Italy betrayed Germany(of course), Austria and Russia started the war over the Balkans and while French revanchism also played a role, the main force behind the Entente and the War was German and US industry outcompeting the British one, and if you haven't read Luxemburg or Lenin you should at least read Thycidides.
Wew lad
I agree with most of your post and of course it's the inevitable logic of capital that breeds these wars. I'm just saying that if you tried to convince a normie irl of that and used such an introduction you'd be laughed out of the room. So really, of course it's capitalism, but the details can be important too, at least for agitprop.
Grayson Lewis
WWI was crucial for the Bolshevik revolution, but it we have no way of knowing if another form of crisis would have done the job. There was a first attempt in 1905, after which the Bolsheviks grew steadily in both size and influence. There has been large scale revolutions without massive wars, like in France. The situation in non-Western countries and the Imperial periphery is more complicated still. Cuban revolution succeeded without external war propelling it, and there was a serious attempt in Finland in 1918, though it was defeated by the Whites together with the Germans. In the coming decades I suspect the environmental crisis could be a sufficient catalyst or a catastrophic enough economic collapse, which we're sure to see, most likely more than one (if the West survives the imminent crash, it will be due to some short-sighted bandaid solution, and will soon lead to another, bigger crash). I also understand that within the Chinese military there are still non-insignificiant Marxist elements, which could tip the scales if there was a sufficient mass uprising.
Parker Kelly
That's the Struggle Session then. To be faced with your past so that you can fully accept being brought into the present. I accept you.
