{"id":68349,"date":"2024-05-23T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68349"},"modified":"2024-05-23T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:45:08","slug":"first-world-war-and-imperialism-dr-jacques-pauwels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68349","title":{"rendered":"First World War and Imperialism. Dr. Jacques Pauwels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/first-world-war-imperialism\/5857486\">First World War and Imperialism. Dr. Jacques Pauwels<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-world-war.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-world-war.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-world-war-300x191.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"250\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Imperialism, the worldwide expansion of capitalism, motivated by the lust for raw materials such as petroleum, markets and cheap labour, involved fierce competition among great powers such as the British Empire, czarist Russia, and the German Reich, and thus led to the Great War of 1914\u20131918, later to be known as the First World War or World War I.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The First World War was the product of the nineteenth century, a \u201clong century\u201d in the view of some historians, lasting from 1789 to 1914. It was characterized by revolutions of a political, social, and also economic nature, especially the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, and ended with the emergence of imperialism, that is a new, worldwide manifestation of capitalism, originally a European phenomenon. This essay focuses on how imperialism played a decisive role in the outbreak, course, and outcome of the \u201cGreat War\u201d of 1914\u20131918; it is based on the author\u2019s book,<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Great Class War 1914\u20131918<\/i>, James Lorimer, Toronto, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the French Revolution broke out in 1789, the nobility (or aristocracy) constituted the ruling class in just about every country in Europe. But because of the French Revolution and other revolutions that followed \u2013 not only in France \u2013 in 1830 and 1848, the\u00a0<i>haute bourgeoisie<\/i> or upper-middle class was able, by the middle of the century, not to unseat the nobility, but to join it at the apex of the social and political pyramid. Thus was formed an \u201cactive symbiosis\u201d of two classes that were in fact very different. The nobility was characterized by great wealth based on large landownership, had a strong preference for conservative political ideas and parties, and tended to cultivate clerical connections&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First World War and Imperialism. Dr. Jacques Pauwels Imperialism, the worldwide expansion of capitalism, motivated by the lust for raw materials such as petroleum, markets and cheap labour, involved fierce competition among great powers such as the British Empire, czarist Russia, and the German Reich, and thus led to the Great War of 1914\u20131918, later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34640,22928,6110,3520,862,891,18328],"class_list":["post-68349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-dr-jacques-r-pauwels","tag-first-world-war","tag-global-research","tag-imperialism","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68350,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68349\/revisions\/68350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}