A. Over the last decade you bring them together with the larger argument so it might make sense for you if you could read from the introduction . Absolutely. In response to the angloamerican and union with the election of donald trump and finally the response to the covid19 outbreak. And the champion of the economist. And the true indoctrination and into the alternative in a democracy and with those in our times. And at the height of the cold war the western civilization fanatics the highly can teach an achievement of human existence. So the biggest of history were communist and fascist and the american theologian and then to see and how they are intended to guarantee the individuals, they became the ideology and to be used by them and still use with the proper political control of that power. Also to that creed that shaped capitalism and liberal democracy and every society in short did justice britain and the United States did. And those who come to occupy History Center stage. And fr
A dedicated anticommunist, the americans were vulnerable to phrases such as the numerology of western civilizations. People see that peculiar capital of liberalism , a dogma which was intended to guarantee economic became the ideology of corporate structures of capitalism. Used by them to prevent a proper politicalcontrol of their power. It was also alert to the fundamental screen that went inside capitalism and liberal democracy that gradually gathered around the world and every society chose ultimately just as britain and theUnited States did. Of course we would not have participated at the blind fanatics who made the cold war so treacherous without offending historycenter stage , and freemarket localizers had grown more complex and charitable and help unravel large parts of asia, africa and western america to foster chaos in their ownsocieties. Thank you for reading from. Another way to talk about blind fanatics and the book publishes a range of people who might fit thatdescription.
You pull them together in this book with a larger argument about the failures of liberalism. I thought it might make sense for you to. [inaudible] reading a little bit from that introduction. Oh, sure. Absolutely. The emphasis in essays in this book were written in response to the Anglo American delusions that climaxed in brexit, the election of donald trump and, finally, a calamitous response to the covid19 outbreak. These range from the 19th century dream of imperial liberalism long championed by the colonists in which capital, goods, jobs and people freely circulate through the proclamation of an American Century of free trade and modernization, the attempt by american cold warriors to seduce [inaudible] away from communist revolution and into the gradual u. S. Alternative or consumer capitalism of democracy to the catastrophic humanitarian wars and demagoguic explosions of our times. Wrote in 1957 at the height of the cold war are the fanatics of western civilization who regard the
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