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RE: COUNTEROR, ita. hat wen ; ether large industrialized povers competing in the world, particularly in the underdeveloped world, would obviously be in a much stronger position than weaker states. WILSON strongly reacted to any kind «f closed system in the world. He opposed on one: hand traditional imperialism, that. is colonialism. He believed, for example, that Germany represented old fashioned, what he calt?= axedistic (phonetic) imperialism, in its most dangerous form, On tlw ~-ther hand, WILSON also opposed threats to an cpen world system from the left, the Russian Revolution, you may recall, occurred in 1917 during WOODROW WILSON's administration, during the First World War, and it became very quickly apparent to WILSCH that the Russian Revolution seemed to pose th same viri of thrent to his open world system, competing Liberal capitelirt eft ‘het the traditional imperialism of European pow: ant port Towly fi WILSOU's mind, Germany, seemed to pose. VIRSON'Ts @onasptton of a League of Nations cannot be ie tated frem WILSON's couceriion of Liberal capitalist international- ism. The Lengue of Vation- in WILSON's view was supposed to rescue the world froe the kind cf state of nature that it was operating in and kind ¢f compose a nien Jiheral lock-in system where everyone could compete with cach cther under the umbrella of law and order and with the assurance of world stability. The League of Nations, in WILSON's mind, was directed as much against old fashioned exclusivistic colonialist imperialism as it was against the kind of threat to capt: list expansion that WILSON saw in the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. -4 New WILSON's plain fcr ma Leaye of Nations was also somewhat premature. For a vaixiety of rensons the League of Nations failed. For a variety of reasons the kind of world system that WILSON envisaged was not established It was not until the Second World War that this kind of system ultimately was imposed on much of the world by United States policy. As I've already mentioned, following the Second World War, American ss :séd(unintelligible) among capitalist nations were sure. At th same time the United States and world capitalism were confronting the increased power of the Soviet Union and the increasing threat of Socialist Revolution. 133