warfare/welfare state . |
All government wars are unjust. |
It all began, as usual, with the Greeks, |
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. |
Liberals tend to hold the bribe-giver as somehow more reprehensible, as in some way 'corrupting' the taker. In that way they deny the free will and the responsibility of each individual for his own actions. |
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. |
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian. |