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Was world war one also caused by Neo-cons?

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posted on Apr, 28 2007 @ 03:49 PM
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Not to take the title to heart due to neo-cons definately began as a British group which spread to the US in the 1970s and 80s but that the psychology was similar. I ask because the idea of neo-cons is through spreading democracy they bring peace and free market economies. But, in WWI this was the theme, to spread and make the world safe for Democracy by ending the tyrannical Empires that were Germany, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman.

While the latter were certainly Empires in the sense, how did Germany, a nation with a legislature, the Reichstag, and a federal system where most of the Länder were autonomous until the end of the war where taxation needed to be made universal to pay for the war. Germany also had a constitution which caused much friction between the various governmental organizations to be considered a divsion of powers.

In short, the system was little different than Britian's utilitarian government except it was a federal system so therefore even more democratic than Britain?



posted on May, 2 2007 @ 09:20 PM
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Maybe the term "neo-con" means something different in Europe than it does in the US? The "neo-conservatives," as the term is used in the United States, have their very beginnings rooted in the 1930's at the City University of New York (CUNY) amongst a group of lower-class Trotskyists whose parents had been Eastern European immigrants. This, of course, is after the first world war, and the group was started by a bunch of very poor college students, not a secretive, evil, international cabal.

I blame the labrynthine structure of alliances, the fact that the war planners of the continental empires were overly postured with offense in mind, and the balance of power in relation to the crumbling Ottoman Empire of the time. It's rather well documented. The folks who would found what would later be called neo-conservatism would have just entered grammar school (if that.)



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