[lbo-talk] rethinking marxism

[Carl Remick]

Didn't the British model of empire-building tend to institutionalize ethnic 
hatreds?  The Brits tended to pit local groups against each other so that 
they could exercise control by being arbiters.  This doesn't seem to have 
been a big success in promoting harmony in the long run.

I think Niall Ferguson should be under sedation in a locked ward.

Carl


>From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at verizon.net>
>
>Niall Ferguson seems to prefer empires to nation-states because the latter
>are more prone to ethnic rivalry.
>
>BTW, I think that imperialism and globalization are essentially a good 
>thing
>for the same reason Marx thought capitalism was essentially a good thing -
>it clears the field of petty nationalisms and their institutional 
>appendages
>and separatist identities, and moves one step closer toward a global
>governance system that is a necessary condition for socialism.
>
>Wojtek