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.

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

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.

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

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.