Man creating himself is a rebellion against the very factuality of the human condition. Now regarded as a nonviolent mean.Īccording to Karl Marx man ‘produces’ himself through labour. Mao Zedong: ‘Power grows out of the barrel of a gun’.Īccording to Georges Sorel there is nothing more violent than the general strike. On revolutions and its relation to violence. Violence has become dubious in international relations but gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs. Robot soldiers will have made ‘human soldiers completely obsolete’. Peace is the continuation of war by other means.
Report from Iron Mountain: War is an extension of diplomacy. The priority of war-making potential is the principal structuring force in society. The second World War was not followed by peace but by a cold war. Only in a world in which nothing of importance ever happens could the futurologist dream come true.Įvery action and every accident necessarily destroy the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.Ĭarl von Clausewitz: Violence is the continuation of politics by other means.įriedrich Engels: Violence is the accelerator of economic development. (Battlefields of the 1980s).Įvents, by definition, are occurrences that interrupt routine processes and procedures. General André Beaufre: Only ‘in those parts of the world not covered by nuclear deterrence’ is war still possible. Those engaged in the perfection of the means of destruction have finally reached a level of technical development where their aim, namely, warfare, is on the point of disappearing altogether by the means at its disposal. Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be predicted, the means to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals. The end is in danger of being overwhelmed by the means which it justifies.
Violent action is ruled by means-end category. The goal is deterrence and more and more deterrence are the guarantee of piece.
The technical developments of the implements of violence and their destructive potential are beyond any possible political goal. The Common denominator of the 20th Century is violence.
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