PERSPECTIVE! Historian Neil Faulkner has written a new 32-page pamphlet for the No Glory campaign: The First World war was caused by military competition between opposing alliances of nation states. these nation states represented the interests of rival blocs of capital competing in the world markets. The British were able to adopt a holier-than-thou attitude because they had grabbed the biggest empire in the 18th century and then led the industrial revolution in the 19th. They favoured free trade because they were economically established. They were able to portray the Germans as aggressors and militarists, and to claim they were guilty of starting the war, only because they were defending an existing empire rather than trying to create a new one. But the underlying aims of the rulers of all the great powers were identical: to carve-up the world in pursuit of profit and power. The First World War was an imperialist war.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:44:01 +0000
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