If this is during WWI then this could spread to widespread war because of the alliance systems
Well to write there ideas and scrolls for anctient texts
... frustrations with how independence had led to situations where caudillos (authoritarian leaders) rose to power.
Bolivar had wanted a united Spanish America, a great nations, but the wars of independence had tended to result in charismatic military rulers leading their own countries in authoritarian ways -- what we today would call dictators.
Soviet Union is communist and they are against free market or capitalism