Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 74

13 Strategic goal : Eradicate war
13 Strategic goal : Eradicate war
13.1 Bring down the military-industrial complex
I will not present detailed strategies from a drawing board in my private study room . Anyway , besides the “ Abandon financial capitalism !” goal there is a second burning demand , valid all over the world and most essential for the future shape of the earth .
As I see it , we have to cease just debunking and complaining , revealing and exposing , accusing and making public about the worldwide felonies of the hidden economic and open political war lords , the big business war profiteers and their nationally blinded , religiously doped and brutalized fighters . Everybody knows about the giant business with death and devastation . Today we witness realtime murderous land attacks and airborne raids even on hospitals and schools , urban trench warfare and house-to-house-fighting that turn cities to rubble . We eyewitness drones when they kill slyly and precisely . They present us online whole places croaked of poison gas attacks , We are informed about land mines that lacerate and maim children , and , and , and , … It has been burned into my subconscious mind decades ago , this war photo from the Vietnamese War of a naked Vietnamese boy burned by napalm , crying , running along a road alone , while bush war was around him .
Nobody has to tell me , and I think nor hardly anybody else to abolish war . Personal experiences and daily worldwide reality of war as well as all war horrors in history can only lead to one single goal : We must eliminate weapon , armament and military nightmares ! We have to abandon those large scale killing tools industries , which are distributing worldwide the means of war and mass murder ! This industry shows at the clearest that capitalist behaviour is free of any morals : no human , high , or primitive morals but absolutely none . All matters are estimated merely in terms of how capital investment pays back , no matter by whatsoever reasonable , socially necessary , or perfidious activities . Whether a medicine research laboratory and renewable energies industries , or a chemical weapons plant and military drones , - capital always follows the scent of the highest profit rate .
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