And I think the angle of Sander Hicks trying to insert himself into this discussion may be an excellent example of an attempt to undermine. But people who give credit to a Marxist theory of history are not necessarily ANYTHING like the Wolrd Can't Wait people -- and actually are a much larger group within academe. In fact, I would say that people who view history as propelled by the collision and interaction of large forces, often economic ones, are DOMINANT in the study of history, compared to those who view it as the story of individuals and small groups and their acts (dismissed as 'conspiracy' by the others).

The point of bringing up things like the financing of Hitler to indicate to people who subscribe to the "large forces" history theory that they have been willing to examine some events or moments in history from the "conspiracy" angle (especially when agents of capitalism are directly involved.) Marx's commentary on Louis Napoleon is apparently another example. The authors are trying to pry open a space in these folks' world view in order to make room for 9/11 truth.