[PEN-L:32595] Re: Re: Re: the ObL theory of international relations

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>      Communism and fascism were products of the grave errors in the
> international order and affairs of states that the First World War
> created, and the Soviet system disintegrated after sixty years because
> it was the aberrant consequence of a destructive and abnormal war.

I am a great admirer of Gabriel Kolko, but this article, and especially
the paragraph above, seems fatally flawed in that it would proffer
advice to the ruling class of the USA not to make any more "mistakes".
It is written in the tone of an adult to a Katzenjammer kid, "Don't you
know that if you poke that hornet's nest, you will get stung?" What
leads the USA into war after war after war is the need to control a vast
empire that furnishes the value (in Marxist terms) that can be used to
foster class peace at home. As Cecil Rhodes once said, "The Empire, as I
have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid
civil war, you must become imperialists."



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