Costs of Empire: "Time-bombs," Anarchy, Guns, and the New Depression

“And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented.”

(Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party)