The Parallels Between Marxism and the Cold War

There is a strange parallel between what was going on then in the world and these leading figures in culture, says Andrew Keen. You had this revolution in France which hard to believe now, but they thought was paradise had come to earth. That obviously, as all of us should have known, collapsed into bloodshed both in the romantic period with the World War,. The Napoleonic Wars were essentially a world war. With us, it became the Cold War with its many wars fought in Vietnam, Korea and all that.