Joseph A. Schumpeter argued that international conflicts certainly precede advanced capitalism and the emergence of advanced capitalist states. Hans J. Morgenthau argued that it is the ruling classes, not the capitalists, in any state who take the decisions to go to war. Raymond Aron, in analyzing the First World War, gives a special importance to the Anglo-German rivalry over arms race and sphere of influence, denying that this had much to do with capitalism. Lenin viewed the First World War as a struggle among the advanced capitalist powers for the control of colonies and markets. The correct answer is E.