Sabri Oncu wrote: > Invoking Hitler's name to establish an analogy is always dangerous, as your > response also demonstrates. What I had in mind was an analogy between the US > imperialist expansion in North America and the German attempt to do the same > during WWI and WWII in Europe. German strategy has been similar to the US > strategy - rather than the UK strategy, which was global - and, of course, in > all of them finance capital played a major role. I don't think the French > finance capital is an equal partner of the German finance capital in the > current state of affairsą¤. One needs to ask this question: who is the > creditor in Europe? Germany is the answer. France is running a current > account deficit.<
I see what you mean.But I wouldn't put to much weight on the idea that Germany tried to take over Europe during the first world war. Instead, that war was a matter of several imperial powers jockeying for domination -- and then the process getting out of anyone's control. The Bolsheviks revealed a bunch of secret treaties that showed that none of these powers were on the side of the angels. Also, finance capital doesn't really have a country. It's more that it has an interest: we must be paid! -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
