Threats of foreign domination, ideological and religious differences, and loss of international “face” and prestige are justifications for War; they are useful to swing popular support behind the State’s Higher Circles’ (or power elite’s or ruling class’) decision to fight a War — or rather to have someone else, volunteers or conscripts, fight a War for them. There has always been one major reason for war — plunder. And that is what taxation is. The mechanism for institutionalized plunder is The State, whether at home or abroad. Hence, the true enemy of War is necessarily the Enemy of the State.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:00:13 +0000
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