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THE QUESTION
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement that
has not operated in the interests of money, in the direction
indicated by money, and for the time being permitted by money
- and that without the idealists among its leaders having the
slightest suspicion of the fact.
Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West
In the West most people, even if they don't trust their politicians, see
their system of government as essentially benign, working for the good
of the nation, being firm and fair in its dealings with the world beyond its
borders, offering peace and cooperation and only going to war if absolutely
forced to. In the developing countries, particularly Moslem ones, that
great spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific covering most of the ancient
civilizations, people see the West differently. As devious and aggressive, if
not outright evil.
I recognize their point of view. I think it has more accuracy than most
Westerners realize. It may be because I find it easier to see the world
through non-Western eyes than most academic historians. In 1966 I was
among the first Westerners to witness the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In
1969 I was driving across Tripoli on the morning of the Libyan Revolution.
I've lectured at the University of Baghdad and was Professor of English for
four years at three universities in Tokyo, Japan.
So in these chapters I approach twentieth-century history in a manner
that will be unfamiliar to most readers. They describe the dominant
themes that determined the major events as money and oil rather than
random assassination or government cock-up. Railroad and oil magnates
are more significant than Lloyd George or the Kaiser.
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