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Are Wars Inevitable?

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These changes threaten the power holders of our society. Since capitalism is a predatory social and economic system, predatory personalities rise to power. They view the world through a lens of aggression. But it's not merely a view. They really are surrounded by enemies. So they believe this false axiom they are propagating that wars are inevitable.

In the past their predecessors defended their power by propagating other nonsense: kings had a divine right to rule over us, Blacks were inferior to Whites, women should obey men. We've outgrown those humbugs, and we can outgrow this one.

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William T. Hathaway's books won him a Rinehart Foundation Award and a Fulbright professorship at universities in Germany. His political novel, Lila, the Revolutionary, is a fable for adults about an eight-year-old girl who sparks a world (more...)
 

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