Society
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The demand for manpower in total war is unsatiated, and insatiable.


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...in general, the nation in wartime attains a uniformity of feeling, a hierarchy of values culminating at the undisputed apex of the State ideal, which could not possibly be produced through any other agency than war.... Other values, such as artistic creation, knowledge, reason, beauty, the enhancement of life, are instantly and almost unanimously sacrificed, and the significant classes who have constituted themselves the amateur agents of the State are engaged not only in sacrificing these values for themselves but in coercing all other persons into sacrificing them.


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...the barbarous state.... They unite in following leaders, who are distinguished by their fortunes, and by the luster of their birth. They join the desire of spoil with the love of glory; and form an opinion, that what is acquired by force, justly pertains to the victor, they become hunters of men, and bring every contest to the decision of the sword.


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A war will put all social improvements among us back ten years...


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In a curious way, the city had grown acclimatized to the routine of Siege life -- it was almost hard to remember any other form of existence.


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...even in the midst of war, which incubates human misery, man need not be brutish nor turn into an animal.


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Gradually, the development of industrial production had become adequate to support mass warfare. Obviously, an industrial economy could now more easily become a war economy, making it possible for a preponderant number of able-bodied men, trained in the use of weapons, to be diverted from their activities to devote themselves to external imperialist conquest or to defend against it. The new techniques of stockpiling and the new means of transportation were also instrumental in making total war possible. In this new type of war men, who had to be shifted between battlefields by tens and hundreds of thousands, became a new kind of matériel that had to be conditioned, supplied, retrieved, reconditioned, and redistributed. After more than a century of existence this landscape of total war has become quite familiar to us.


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Most of the English middle class are trained for war from the cradle onwards, not technically but morally. The earliest political slogan I can remember is "We want eight (eight dreadnoughts) and we won't wait".


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...now we have discovered war to be derived from causes which are also the causes of almost all the evils in States, private as well as public.


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...this supposed right to kill the conquered is by no means deducible from the state of war. Men, from the mere fact that, while they are living in their primitive independence, they have no mutual relations stable enough to constitute either the state of peace or the state of war, cannot be naturally enemies. War is constituted by a relation between things, and not between persons; and, as the state of war cannot arise out of simple personal relations, but only out of real relations, private war, or war of man with man, can exist neither in the state of nature, where there is no constant property, nor in the social state, where everything is under the authority of the laws.


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     Society -- Added : April 09, 2020

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