To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?

War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.