Raven recorded that the breakthrough for this vision had been first the ­Great War, ­after which the idea of “worldwide order” became a “working conviction” for many but ­really took hold ­after the “financial storms of the years 1928 and 1929,” which gave “the World-­State prophets the courage of their conviction”—­“they had arrived at the realization that ­human society had become one indivisible economic system.”

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 294