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Mackinder Mahan
Mackinder Mahan
Karl Marx
Karl Marx 1818.-1883. njemaki filozof 19. st.
Udaljen od geopolitike
Kljuni initelji povijest su drutvene klase koje su oblikovane zbog
gospodarskog razvoja i raspodjele bogastva
Geoplitika prouava drave, prema Marxu, odluujui initelj je
tehnika, za geopolitiku to je utrka za mo
Za Marxa geografija je spordna datost, bitno je kretanje povijesti koje
vodi ovjeanstvo u istu dinamiku prorok globalizacije
Suprotstavlja se podjeli bogastva, ali zanemaruje uspon nacija
Proletarijat nema domovinu, solidarnost s izrabljivanima
Radnici svih zemalja trebali bi se ujediniti kako bi sprjeili rat
klasna solidarnost trebala bi pobjediti nacionalnu lojalnost
Dogaa se suprotno mobilizacija vojske gotov da ne nailazi na otpor
svaki proleter vjeran je svojoj domovini
Friedrich Engels
Mackinder
The actual balance of political power at any given time is
the product, on the one hand, of geographical conditions,
both economic and strategic, and, on the other hand, of the
relative number, equipment and organization of the
competing nations.
No mere scraps of paper, even though they be the written
constitution of a League of Nations, are, under the conditions of
to-day, a sufficient guarantee that the Heartland will not again
become the center of a World war.
Od sredine
18. do
poetka 19. st.Razdoblje
imperijalizma
Alfred Mahan
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their
business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or
within.
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military
conclusions and practice.
The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his
fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to
enter into a fight with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be
thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of
equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted
together.
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The
growing production of the country demands it.