On Violence

THESE REFLECTIONS were provoked by the events and debates of the last few years as seen against the background of the twentieth century, which has become indeed, as Lenin predicted, a century of wars and revolutions, hence a century of that violence which is currently believed to be their common denominator.

economic systems, political philosophies, and corpora juris serve and extend the war system, not vice versa

the revolution of technology, a revolution in toolmaking, was especially marked in warfare.