The Great Class War S Substack Substack Relying heavily on the philosophy of history developed by german historian oswald spengler a century ago, at this point in america’s development everything revolves around the final battle to give our civilization (the first to span the globe) its final form. Historian jacques pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the first world war, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. as pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders.
The Great Class War S Substack Substack What began in summer 1914 as a local balkan conflict between an upstart serbia and the wizened dual monarchy of austria hungary became by 1918 a war that raged across the globe, involving all the great powers and ushering in a level of mass battlefield killing unimaginable just a few years earlier. World war i, [b] or the first world war (28 july 1914 – 11 november 1918), also known as the great war, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the allies (or entente) and the central powers. War had been “in the air” for many years, and was very much wanted. it was wanted, and was gratuitously unleashed, by europe’s elite: a combination of the aristocracy of large landowners and the upper bourgeoisie, consisting of industrialists and financiers. With the assassination of franz ferdinand, the heir to the throne of an empire that had recently and fearfully suspended its parliament, the aristocratic bourgeois governing coalitions in europe declared war on each other in hopes of defusing the class war at home.
The Great Class War S Substack Substack War had been “in the air” for many years, and was very much wanted. it was wanted, and was gratuitously unleashed, by europe’s elite: a combination of the aristocracy of large landowners and the upper bourgeoisie, consisting of industrialists and financiers. With the assassination of franz ferdinand, the heir to the throne of an empire that had recently and fearfully suspended its parliament, the aristocratic bourgeois governing coalitions in europe declared war on each other in hopes of defusing the class war at home. Historian jacques pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the first world war, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. as pauwels sees it, war offered. In this critical, revisionist account, historian jacques pauwels shows how the first world war was rooted in class strife that begin with the french revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war itself. Perhaps the biggest strength of this book comes in the final chapter entitled, “class wars from 1945 to the present.” pauwels sees the rise of totalitarianism in germany and italy as an elite attempt to roll back the democratic reforms that were implemented in the aftermath of the great war. For the wealthy and ruling classes, war served as an antidote to social revolution, encouraging workers to exchange socialism's focus on international solidarity for nationalism's intense militarism.
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