>>787564>No one said the national bourgeoisie cannot loseThat's the implication of stating that the purpose of war is to destroy capital and combat overproduction. If that's the real objective of every capitalist war, then any bourgeoisie which kills people and breaks shit "wins" the war, even if they lose. I'm pointing out the inherent absurdity in this way of thinking.
>Lenin pointed out that imperialist war isn't solely a war against the international working class, but also a struggle between imperialists themselvesYes that's my point. Bourgeois states wage war in order to accomplish specific objectives related to their narrow national (bourgeois) interests, not for the benefit of the global capitalist system in the abstract. As such they win or lose based on whether they achieve those objectives, and failure to do so can have serious negative consequences for them. It may be true for example that capitalism as a whole benefitted from WW1, but it would be pretty hard to argue that the German bourgeoisie specifically did.