I wrote: > in some ways, the basis for ww2 was a lot like that for ww1 except that Britain had lost its hegemony and the US hadn't grabbed the baton yet.<
a symptom of Britain's fall appears in my current signature line's quote from Keynes. Formerly a full-scale liberal, his ideas at the time reflected his view that (British-run) liberal capitalism had failed. -- Jim Devine / "The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods." -- John Maynard Keynes.
