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

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

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

If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

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

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.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.