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There can not be war without capitalist telling politicians what they already know!
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Saturday May 08, 2004 06:44 by cat&dog
All wars have one common thing, war is not something you buy from store, it is something that grows in the nature we call capitalism and it is also a terrible tragedy to humankind and we cannot achieve peace without giving the necessary sacrifice building our anti-capitalist movement by saying no to guns and violence that keeps this world turning around and around like a hurricane that destroys all it can touch without leaving people noithing or verry little to say at least. You can touch your private parts without hurting anyone exept yourselves ;) , you can grow beautiful flowers without hurting someone, but you cannot have war amongst the living things without destroying a beautiful dream we call socialism. This socialism is on our reach if we can just work it out with each other and unite this planet under one flag and fight together to achieve peace and socialism after capitalism is buried deep into the ground where it belongs and it will never resurrect i can promise you if we do a good job protecting this world from the powers of evil. |
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Jump To Comment: 1"......war is not something you buy from store, it is something that grows in the nature we call capitalism and it is also a terrible tragedy to humankind ....:"
UH --- true about not something you buy in stores and true war is a terrible tragedy to humankind but sorry, capitalism is not the CAUSE of war, cannot be the CAUSE of war. If that were true, then we humans would only have been fighting wars for a few hundred years, say 500 at the most, since "capitalism" is a relatively recent social development.
Might I call your attention to the historical and archeological evidence. I believe the oldest certain evidence we have for the antiquity of war is the fact that the first defensive town wall went up around the original site of Jericho about 7000 years ago. Which appears to have been inhabited by resonably egalitarian hunter-gatherers >
Near as we can tell, humans have ALWAYS fought wars with their neighbors, possibly as far back as we have been human, and certainly LONG before the first capitalist. Within a capitalist society, there will be capitalist reasons for war but that isn't saying much -- just that in a society of type X the reasons things happen will be related to X rathehr than to Y.
I am hopeful that if we ever achieve an egalitarian socialist society we can do away with the evil of inequitable distribution within our society. But I am not at all hopeful that this would eliminate the evil of war. I am afraid that our socialist society will manage to find perfectly good socialist reasons to fight wars with its neighbors --- notwithstanding the fact that I cannot imagine what these might be