The Carter administration is, he asserts, ‘careening with frightening speed towards collectivism’. Simon ( 1978a:191, 222 1978b:6) offers an analysis of economic-political problems in 1978 and solutions to them. Notice something else about the challenges Carter faced: Propaganda War On “Philosophical Enemies of Capitalism”
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. They did so by making movement easier without direct territorial control. These were, like synthetics, empire-killing technologies, in that they helped render colonies unnecessary. That globalization, in turn, depended on key technologies devised or perfected by the U.S. Now markets scamper across borders, planes land anywhere, and communications satellites connect the most seemingly distant places.īut all that is relatively new, an artifact of post–World War II globalization. In so doing, they also helped to create the world we know today, where powerful countries project their influence through globalization rather than colonization. But, collectively, they weaned the United States off colonies. The “empire-killing technologies” ranged from skywave radio to screw threads, and they worked in different ways. In doing so, they drove the demand for colonies down. Yet at the same time, new technologies gave powerful countries ways to enjoy the benefits of empire without claiming populated territories. The worldwide anti-imperialist revolt drove the cost of colonies up. It may help to look at the decline of colonialism from a different angle, focusing not just on supply but on demand as well. It was also startling in how much it centered the world’s trade, transport, and communication on one country, the United States. Dramatically, and in just a few years, the military built a world-spanning logistical network that was startling in how little it depended on colonies. military in a short burst of time in the 1940s, with the goal of giving the United States a new relationship to territory. But those new technologies didn’t just crop up.
Globalization is a fashionable word, and it’s easy to speak of it in vague terms-to talk of increasingly better technologies drawing a disparate world together. They replaced colonization with globalization. Collectively, these technologies weaned the United States off the familiar model of formal empire. Similarly, the United States managed to standardize many of its objects and practices-from screw threads to road signs to the English language-across political borders, again gaining influence in places it didn’t control. Airplanes, radio, and DDT enabled it to move its goods, ideas, and people into foreign countries easily without annexing them. Plastics and other synthetics allowed it to replace tropical products with man-made substitutes. Which reminds me of a book I heard about via Mano Singham’s blog: Hidden Empireĭuring the Second World War, the United States honed an extraordinary suite of technologies that gave it many of the benefits of empire without having to actually hold colonies. On China and U.S.’s worry that China is “getting ahead of us”, see at point 39:40 Chomsky’s comment on just this point, the trade agreements with China, being “an effort to prevent China’s economic development”: “Jimmy Carter: US Is the ‘Most Warlike Nation in History of the World.’” Alternet.Org. Carter then referred to the US as “the most warlike nation in the history of the world,” a result, he said, of the US forcing other countries to “adopt our American principles.” Counting wars, military attacks and military occupations, there have actually only been five years of peace in US history-1976, the last year of the Gerald Ford administration and 1977-80, the entirety of Carter’s presidency. Ĭarter then said the US has been at peace for only 16 of its 242 years as a nation. The only US president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.”. “President Trump Called Former President Carter To Talk About China.” 90.1 FM WABE (blog). He called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world,” because of a tendency to try to force others to “adopt our American principles.” (China and Vietnam actually fought a brief border war in early 1979, weeks after normalization of U.S.-China relations.) The U.S., Carter said, has been at war for all but 16 years of its 242-year history.
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