Re: [Pen-l] the Good Depression?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
> 
> Carrol Cox wrote:
> >...  I  suspect WW3 (roughly 1947-1990) surpassed that total by many millions.<
> 
> Strangely, some neo-conservatives use pretty much the same definition
> of World War 3. Of course, the "global war on terror" is World War 4.
> 
> (Hmm... were the Napoleonic wars "World War 0"? and the Mercantilist
> wars "World War -1"? )

"World War" was probably a eurocentric misnomer for 1914-1918 war, and
even the second war touched lightly if at all on most of Latin America
and much of Africa. But the Cold War damn near caused casualties
everywhere. Of course conservatives view it as advertiesed, a 'war' for
supremacy between the USSR and the U.S. -- but I prefer the hidden or
implicit definition in JFK's inauugural: a war on Latin America, Africa,
and south asia. It was also a continuation of the encirclement of the SU
begun in 1918 -- but that was secondary. Do you think the Soviets (under
any of its leaders, Stalin through Gomulka) really wanted the conflict?

Carrol

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