RE TLF AND THE RATIONALE FOR GLOBALIZATION

It seemed to start out, at least by the time of WWII, innocently enough, as a West war recovery mechanism, Marshall Plan only. 

But then it also had Bretton Woods........

It very very quickly morphed into a rationale for booming the then noncommunist developing attacker state world to defend it and to get it to side with the West ideologically.

The United States forced the West to decolonialize.

There was nothing whatsoever inevitable about these institutions or their workings and effects.

Had we instituted The Morgenthau Plan and refused to do a Marshall Plan or Bretton Woods institutions, pursued isolationism, that would have been a very real and attractive alternative to many here in the US. 

The underlying problem with that stance was of course the Soviet Union hanging over both Europe and over Asia after the war.

But, on the other hand, controlling the USSR did not itself also require booming the Rest or institution of Bretton Woods.

There was nothing inevitable about post war noncommunist expansion, leading then eventually to globalization.

And communist regimes appear to have won the ideological debate in any event anyway!