RES: Korea's blessing

[Brad De Long]

>>From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>>
>>Right now my list of causes of World War II is, roughly in
>>order:
>>
>>(1) Hitler
>
>And whence came Hitler, ex nihilo?  IMO, the number one cause of 
>WWII was WWI, which in turn was mainly caused by imperialism.
>
>Carl

And as I said, there is this Arno Mayer-Josef Schumpeter position 
that WWI was caused by the persistence of the Old Regime--by the 
*lack* of capitalism...