[lbo-talk] Western states have created the biggest wars in history (was fartback)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Jul 20 08:02:45 PDT 2005


Charles Brown wrote:
>
> Wojtek
> It is an unquestionable fact that Western democracies created unprecedented
> peace and prosperity, thus ending the state of perpetual war that
> characterized earlier stages of development.
>
> ^^^^\
>
> CB: This is a profoundly _false_ statement.

It's much worse than merely false. It is as close to evil as one can imagine words to be. It betokens either profound ignorance, a failure ever to have read any history of the last 500 years, even elemetary school level history, or what, given Wojtek's history of racist slurs at African Americans, a real belief that the deaths of non-europeans don't count. Because those democracies he praises, as anyone who knows anything must realize, have waged an unremitting and incredibly bloody war on non-european peoples for 500 years. To answer such garbage is to give its producer too much credit as a fellow human.

Carrol



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