What Marxist tripe.

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….As regards the fall of the Roman Empire, there is a Tabloid version of history here along the lines of “Rome ended because the Vandals….Vandalised Rome in 460….bloody foreigners!” The truth is a little different. Rome was sacked several times and the Empire hung on for sometime beyond the final sacking, although arguably it had passed the point of no return centuries earlier. The collapse of the Roman Empire was thus a more gradual affair in which a host of social, politcal and environmental factors played a role, Vandalising Vandals were just the final straw that broke the camels back.

As Jared Diamond put it (I’m paraphrasing here as I don’t remember the exact quote) “the collapse of any advanced civilisation can be characterised as a series of entirely rational short term decisions, which proved to be ultimately irrational over an extended period”

There is a desperate need for people today to realise that our civilisation is not immune to the same mechanisims of collapse. Least we forget, the soviet Empire collapsed just 20 years ago.