-Caveat Lector-
Alyssa Rosenbaum
Germany and Russia needed war; the United States did
not and gained nothing. (In fact, the United States
lost, economically, even though it won the war: it
was left with an enormous national debt, augmented
by the grotesquely futile policy of supporting former
allies and enemies to this day.) Yet it is capitalism
that today's peace-lovers oppose and statism that they
advocate -- in the name of peace.
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based
on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore,
the only system that bans force from social relationships.
By the nature of its basic principles and interests, it
is the only system fundamentally opposed to war.
nurev wrote:
This country's capitalist economy utterly failed in the
thirties. Even the alphabet programs of the New Deal
did not revive the economy. ONLY WAR REVIVES CAPITALISM
WHEN IT BURNS ITSELF OUT. ONLY WAR!!!!!
MJ:
You obviously (though often demonstrated) lack a knowledge
of what entails capitalism -- there are no and never have been
any examples of Capitalist societies. The economy which failed
(assuming you mean the Great Depression) was a result of
Government tinkering as they desired to CONTROL the economy
through such devices as the Federal Reserve. Do you require
some reading beyond the nonsense put forth by Government
apologists?
Statists have always been fascinated by war and its possibilities,
even if they sometimes shrink from the implications. The rulers
and the court intellectuals understand that free people have their
own concerns -- family and work and recreation -- and it's not easy
to get them enrolled voluntarily in the rulers' crusades and
schemes. Court intellectuals are constantly calling for a
'national effort' to undertake some task or other, and most people
blithely ignore them and go on bout the business of providing for
their families and trying to build a better mousetrap. But in time
of war -- then you can organize society and get evervone dancing to
the same tune. As early as 1910, William James came up with the idea
of 'The Moral Equivalent of War', in an essay proposing that young
Americans be conscripted into 'an army enlisted against Nature'
that would cause them to 'get the childishness knocked out of them,
and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer
ideas'.
Collectivists don't like the killing involved in war, but they love
its domestic effects: centralization, the growth of government power,
and, not coincidentally, an enhanced role for court intellectuals
and planners with Ph.D.'s. The dangers of war in the modern era
have encouraged the state and its intellectual allies to look for
more trumped-up emergencies and 'moral equivalents of war' to rally
the citizenry and persuade them to give up more of their liberty
and their property to the state's plans. Thus we've had the War
on Poverty, and the War on Drugs, and more crises and national
emergencies than a planner could count on a supercomputer. One
advantage of these 'moral equivalents of war' is that real wars
eventually end, while the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs can
go on for generations. And thus does the alliance between the
state and its compliant intellectuals reach its zenith in war or
its moral equivalent.
War, then, is Public Choice theory writ large: bad for the people
but good for the governing class. No wonder everyone wishes it
would stop but no one can stop It.
Regard$,
--MJ
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides
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