Neckerman, Peter. "The Promise of Globalization or the Clash of Civilizations." World and I 13:2 (Dec. 1998): 314.

“If I were asked to give a name to our century, I would not hesitate for a single moment. I would call it the “Century of Globalization,” because this will be its lasting legacy. The two dominant ideologies, communism and liberalism (liberalism meaning democracy and free enterprise), did not respect borders, and each claimed to bring redemption to all people and to unite them: one into the universal class of the proletariat and the other into the bourgeoisie. It was not at all clear from the outset which ideology would win. At the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, many in Europe believed that communism was the future for enlightened people and that mankind would escape greed and individualism under the tutelage of a superior state. As late as 1962, Nikita Khrushchev declared that the Soviet Union would win the economic race against the United States in less than twenty years–and many in the West feared that this might actually happen.”

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