military-industrial conflict

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Dec 18 14:35:38 PST 2002


At 4:30 PM -0600 12/18/02, Carrol Cox wrote:
>After all, there have always been _ruling class_ figures in the U.S.
>to urge restraint upon their class, and when have they ever been
>honored. Why should a duke prof expect a better hearing?

E.g.

***** Walter LaFeber : Anti-Imperialism in the United States

...Carnegie, the steel magnate, believed that taking the Philippines was one of the great historic mistakes in American history. And, in fact, Carnegie had the peculiarly American solution for taking the Philippines, what he suggested to McKinley was that he, Carnegie, would personally pay McKinley $20 million to buy the Philippines and then he'd turn them back to the Filipinos. McKinley turned this particular offer down, at which point Carnegie then turned to the anti-imperialists and began to finance the anti-imperialists. The anti-imperialists reached, I think, a peak of their influence in the early part of 1900.

<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/filmmore/reference/interview/lafeber_antiimperialism.html> ***** -- Yoshie

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