The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.