Oh I definitely don't agree with that. The only reason that the various reforms of the 40s, 50s, and 60s happened in the US were because of the threat of the USSR.
Domestically, yeah sure. Communists and other liberatory movements, as well as the shadow of the USSR, certainly forced the hand of the US to give concessions and reforms. However, the more important and insidious part to consider is its foreign policy - it was in competition with the USSR and socialism that the US committed genocide, bio-chemical warfare and other war crimes in Vietnam, Laos., Cambodia, or Korea. It was to counter the USSR and socialism that the US funded death squads in Iran, the Caribbean, Central and South America to torture and kill villages of innocents, or to continue to support the Apartheid regime, even after the Civil Rights Movement was successful in the US.
I have no reason to believe that the US won't be more or less the same in competition with China.
Oh I definitely don't agree with that. The only reason that the various reforms of the 40s, 50s, and 60s happened in the US were because of the threat of the USSR.
Domestically, yeah sure. Communists and other liberatory movements, as well as the shadow of the USSR, certainly forced the hand of the US to give concessions and reforms. However, the more important and insidious part to consider is its foreign policy - it was in competition with the USSR and socialism that the US committed genocide, bio-chemical warfare and other war crimes in Vietnam, Laos., Cambodia, or Korea. It was to counter the USSR and socialism that the US funded death squads in Iran, the Caribbean, Central and South America to torture and kill villages of innocents, or to continue to support the Apartheid regime, even after the Civil Rights Movement was successful in the US.
I have no reason to believe that the US won't be more or less the same in competition with China.
Good point, I was only thinking domestically.