Is the cold war over? / Saul Landau.

Talk by Saul Landau, who argues that the cold war was based upon a lie of two competing systems. In reality, the conflict was between two competing ideologies. The communists could never compete with the capitalists, he asserts. The cold war has guaranteed continual global conflict since World War II, staged throughout the Third World. He concludes with an examination of the problems in a socialist system, and provides one analysis of Michael Gorbachev’s program of change.|IS THE COLD WAR OVER? / Saul Landau. – Talks by Saul Landau, who argues that the cold war was based on a lie of two competing systems. In reality, the conflict was between two competing ideologies. The communists could never compete with the capitalists, he asserts. The cold war has guaranteed continual global conflict since World War II staged throughout the Third World. He concludes with an examination of the problems in a socialist system, and provides one analysis of Gorbachev’s program of change. BROADCAST: KPFK, 26 July 1989.