The spectre of collectivism

neoliberalism, the wars, and historical revisionism

Damien Cahill

pp. 183-197

in: Matthew Sharpe, Rory Jeffs, Jack Reynolds (eds), 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

With considerable justification, Eric Hobsbawm (1994, 22) described the period between 1914 and 1945 as "that of the thirty-one years' world war'. World War I created the context for World War II by embedding a similar axis of conflict within the architecture of peace: "the Versailles settlement could not possibly be the basis of a stable peace. It was doomed from the start, and another war was therefore practically certain' (Hobsbawm 1994: 34). The combination of world wars one and two and the global economic depression which punctuated them was catastrophic:

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