A. J. P. Taylor - Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; a...

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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

A. J. P. Taylor

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Lenin war der erste, der entdeckte, dass der Kapitalismus "unvermeidlich" Krieg verursacht hat; und das entdeckte er erst, als der Erste Weltkrieg bereits ausgetragen wurde. Natürlich hatte er recht. Seit 1914 war jeder große Staat kapitalistisch.

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