— Malcolm Harrishow could they fight if they were all his friends? The logic broke down as Chancellor Bismarck, in Giovanni Arrighi’s elegant formulation, “realized that the verdict of the market on the viability of the German state and of German society was too harsh to take” and built the nation into a unitary imperial machine.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.