August 3, 2014

Andrew Murray surveys the changing global order on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI

Imperialism, the eminent Marxist historian Victor Kiernan observed, displays “itself in coercion exerted abroad, by one means or another, to extort profits above what simple commercial exchange can procure.”

The wars of 1914 and 1939 are the outstanding examples of what happens when that international system of extortion breaks down, when its normal methods of treaty, cartel, secret agreement, small colonial conflicts, coup, bribery and monopoly understandings no longer suffice.

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