Endgame of the Long Cold War

... in the post-World War 11 imperialist systems consolidated under US leadership, there could only be wars between the two systems, capitalism and socialism, but not within capitalism. In his last published work, “Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR” (1951), Stalin contradicted this thesis (without however mentioning Varga by name) and pointed out that even in the postwar world, wars within imperialism, wars among capitalist powers, was perfectly possible. Applied to the contemporary world, it would mean that the absence of a systemic and ideological clash between the West and core Eurasian states, and indeed the incorporation and participation ...