A World At Arms, p. 21, WAS NO DIFFERENT FROM AMERICAN ROGUE COLONISTS' relentless expansion across North America, punctuated by wars with Indians, French, and Spanish, and done contrary to British policy of establishing a peaceful border to colonial expansion West. The Louisiana Purchase was a Pollyanna departure, but was predicated on Napoleon's loss in war in Europe, a war in which we joined against Britain.
The Mexican-American and Spanish American Wars followed on re lebensraum, etc.
One difficulty with Weinberg's analysis is that he adopts a Whig interpretation of the origins of so called societal racialism, tying it in terms of lineage to the concept of crude social darwinism, as an ostensibly recent anti assimilative aberration to Marx's concept of class struggle, by substitution of race struggle for that of classes. Different races in different populations are analogized to different classes within a single population.
This makes a real Pig's Breakfast of Marx, Darwin, and Hitler.
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