Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 77

13 Strategic goal: Eradicate war
rity and protection forces such as oil companies, global shipping lines,
main airline companies, google or amazon allegedly to protect their
servers and centres in cyberwars.
In this light the struggle against the cross-linked armaments indus-
tries takes on new dimensions. It is no longer only about national
forces and nationally indoctrinated soldiers who are convinced to
fight for their homeland and die for their families. These aspects re-
cede more and more. As the world grows together more closely, the
futility of such wars becomes increasingly obvious. Globally impracti-
cal nationalism and sacked nation state wars tend to break off the
triad leaving monopolistic and financial capitalism more isolated, be-
sieged and somehow vulnerable than ever. I dream of people deny-
ing following to war and rather risk civil wars against the war camp
than eradicate innocent foreign people they are quite acquainted
with including the soldiers of the so called enemy. We should cherish
the numerous, instructive examples from history, i.e. the fraterniza-
tions of English, German, and French Soldiers in the trenches of WW
I, or the Kiel mutiny by the German fleet sailors, triggering the Ger-
man revolution in 1918. Or let us never forget about the many US
Vietnam war resisting deserters, who found refuge in Sweden, and
the worldwide successful campaign against the US Vietnam War at
that time.
And that is how the two main strategic goals go together: Without
high-tech military weapon systems of some Great powers global fi-
nance capital becomes a toothless tiger. And an outbraked finance
capital without playing grounds won’t be able to afford high-tech ar-
mies.
13.5 Imagine there is war and nobody joins in?
Matters of war and peace are not as easy and obvious as they seem
to be from a moral, philanthropic, religious, or pacifistic perspective.
You cannot consider war primarily as a general human phenomenon.
To fight modern war does not automatically imply to be able to ban
violence and combat from history.
It is beyond dispute that a country has to defend itself when it is in-
vaded for its natural resources and imperial dominance and has to
fight for its liberation. History also teaches that a people won’t
achieve real freedom by a national liberation perspective and the
formation of an own “WE”-nation state, be it labelled democrat, re-
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