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The era most similar to ours could arguably well be the pre-WW1 era, with several imperialist powers vying for larger markets and better raw material supplies,
by stareatgoats 8y ago
The era most similar to ours could arguably well be the pre-WW1 era, with several imperialist powers vying for larger markets and better raw material supplies, without any real threat of a socialist revolution, which at the core had the notion of workers unity across nation borders. It is mainly the reason that socialism is not a threat that differs: then socialism had not yet proven itself as a viable form of government; now it has been disproved.
It makes we worry that we have no real leverage against the modern-day imperialists that are increasingly sounding their trumpets of war.
- jcranmer 8y ago> The era most similar to ours could arguably well be the pre-WW1 era, with several imperialist powers vying for larger markets and better raw material supplies, without any real threat of a socialist revolution, which at the core had the notion of workers unity across nation borders. Uh, false? One of the major factors in the breakout of WWI was that all of the major European powers had massive, divisive conflicts (largely related to class), and their leaders felt that a war would be a good way to help bring unity to their own country while looking over at their competitors and feeling that a war would push the other countries over the edge.
- stareatgoats 8y agofalse? false I think. The two descriptions complement each other, they are not mutually exclusive.
- Latteland 8y agoReplace the conflicting and overlapping disputes and treaties in pre-ww 1 Wurope with the same thing in the middle east today. I expect the middle east will trigger the next great war.