1967 Zbigniew Brzezinski at Carleton University -Gives Marxist Lecture January 24 1967
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Article about Zbigniew Brzezinski\u2019s Jan 1967 presentation during meeting held at Carleton
University School of International Affairs.
The previous days article - by the same
reporter- described the meeting as \u201cclosed,\u201d but the address by Brzezinski \u201cof
the United States Department of State\u201d was \u201con-the record\u201d
A Quiet U.S. View:
Proceed to Peace, Slowly
A MAN very influential in the planning of United
States foreign policy spoke at Carleton University Friday evening to a group of
history professors and historians, and members of the Department of External
Affairs.
His premise was this:
"Through time, man's self-identification
and his perception of the world around him has moved from family to city to
province to nation and now increasingly to regional cooperation. The creation
of a world of co-operative communities is the real imperative of our search for
a stable peace. Today, for the first time in the history of mankind, our world
is united by fear. We have to do better than that."
In the past, Dr. Brzezinski recalled at the
meeting which was reported in this space yesterday, alliances of nations had
served to wage war, in our age they deter war: tomorrow they must shift
collectively to the promotion of peace. The best course for Europe, he said,
would be for all of its nations gradually to co-operate in an ever-closer
Western unity.
NOTHING much new in that, a reader might say. But this man whose sphere of
influence in American policy is that of Eastern Europe went on to say that the
United States had no wish to see created in Europe a replica of the United
States. "We are aware of the enormous cultural diversity, the linguistic
wealth, the historical variety of the European peoples. It would be a continental
mosaic, the richer for diversity, the stronger for its unity."A united Europe could be a strong competitor of the United States, but that
risk "is lesser than the maintenance of old national antipathies. There is
simply no room in contemporary Europe" he went on, "for the anarchy
of an international order based on the supremacy of the national ego."
Dr. Brzezinski:
\u201cEventually, through such processes of growing
together these societies may be transformed into something more compatible from
our point of view. I personally doubt that they will converge with the West in
the sense of acquiring identical political systems, or indeed, even similar
political systems: But they could become, through this" process,
semi-dictatorships of increasingly Socialist character (and of less Communist
dictatorial kind), including more internal social pluralism. Here I think
Yugoslavia is a relevant pioneer.
The Sino-Soviet dispute, moreover, has had an accelerating impact on this
process. The East Europeans and the Russians, increasingly describe China as
Fascist, and the Russians, in my private recent conversations in Moscow, were
already fearful of what may seem to be a fanciful illusion, fearful of a
Chinese-American alliance directed against them. But even though this may
fanciful, it could have, cumulatively, a Europeanizing impact on them: it
encourages a process of de-radicalization, encourages a process of adjusting to
existing realities, forces them in the direction of ideological ecumenism. This
was the historical experience of the Social Democratic parties, and we should
not forget that 60 years ago the Social Democratic parties were most
revolutionary parties Europe; today they are hardly revolutionary.
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