Competing state-capitalist blocs destabilized the global economy and caused World War II.

Evidence

The destabilizing consequences of these simultaneous state-capitalist attempts to carve up the global economy precipitated the Second World War and the final destruction of the old European order. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 521

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Large-scale merchant capitalism depended on state finance tied to war. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1515; Economic globalization undermines the nation as a coherent framework, fueling closed nationalist reactions — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3167; Economic collapse destroyed social fabric and private life before Nazism’s rise — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 253 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Marxist regimes made war on each other in conventional interstate terms #expands (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 30
• Large-scale merchant capitalism depended on state finance tied to war. #expands (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1515
• Economic collapse destroyed social fabric and private life before Nazism’s rise #expands (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 253
• War forced comprehensive state economic control that outperformed laissez-faire. #expands (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 168
• The collapse of class parties after WWI opened the way for totalitarian movements #expands (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 653
• Economic globalization undermines the nation as a coherent framework, fueling closed nationalist reactions #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3167