Dangers of imperial-capitalist wars
Friday, April 20, 2018
In fact, in most cases those wars have made the world more dangerous. Furthermore, these wars, most of them waged by the United States and its clients, have wreaked environmental destruction, made life even more difficult for those who have little to begin with, and created an economy whose very existence not only demands but depends on the waging of and preparation for war and more war. In other words, a permanent war economy.
According to most commentators on the subject, the term “permanent war economy” was first discussed in detail by Edward Sard and his understanding of the phenomenon was that this type of economy is a form of military Keynesianism. In other words, it is a way to transfer wealth from the working classes to capital by means of government taxation. He further argued that developing a permanent war economy was the only way contemporary capitalism could survive. As any reasonable thinker would acknowledge today, not only has capitalism survived, its reach is so ubiquitous that there is essentially no alternative to its deadly but profitable presence.
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