Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 76

13 Strategic goal: Eradicate war
though utterly necessary track that lies ahead of the peoples and of
us.
13.4 The unholy Trinity crumbles
The world has been dominated by a triad, by the big three: monopo-
listic capitalism – nationalism - nation-state wars. Over the past 150
years this unholy Trinity kept the world in suspense by imperialist
Great Powers which divided the globe and then reallocated it violent-
ly. Nationally positioned big business fought globally for raw materi-
als, markets, and colonial spheres of influence. Their competitive
struggle was triggered by compulsion for economic growth but in the
end it was not decided economically but by armed force and war.
There were two decisive factors in this giants’ struggle: Firstly, to
hold superior weaponry in all branches of service. Secondly, to com-
mand millions of soldiers to wield the arms. These men from nation
states had to share nationalistic sentiments to charge at the men of
the opposing side without hesitation. Such an attitude was evoked by
cults of fatherland and superior nationality in all countries, in other
words by nationalism and jingoism. In the internationalist spirit of the
Socialist International of 1889 to wage such a war would have been
impossible.
Bottom line: At the core of the triad you find armaments industries
which ensure maximum profits and provide the military tools of
power and command plus nationalistically incited military human re-
sources.
In the course of contemporary history the triad crumbles. Though
nationalism conducts itself extremely aggressive at the moment, it
has a harder stand on the whole. In times of peoples getting to know
each other better than ever and objectively growing together, as well
as in the face of a young cosmopolitan generation, the resisting front
against nationalist thinking seems stronger than in former times. On
the other hand, triad establishments need less and less nationalisti-
cally inveigled masses to conduct wars. The contemporary technolog-
ical standard of military does not call for huge cannon fodder armies.
Today they are in demand for specialists at the buttons of high-tech
systems. These experts do not need any national ethos but just good
pay and emotionless killer instincts, thus a mercenary mentality. I