Endgame of the Long Cold War

... guaranteed that the Crash of 2008 did not turn into a Great Depression precisely because China had been incorporated into the world economy? Why is the plaintive hope that the absence of an ideological dimension to the competition between the US, Russia and China, should restore harmonious dialogue, essentially utopian? Zachary Paikin: A Few Words in Defence of Francis Fukuyama The answer is that for imperialism as a system, contradictions and wars were not primarily generated by reasons of ideology, and therefore the warlike character of imperialism could not be abolished or neutralized by the absence of the clash of ideologies. In the late 1940s ...