"War has the deep meaning that by it the ethical health of nations is preserved and their finite aims uprooted. And as the winds which sweep over the ocean prevent decay that would result from its perpetual calm, so war protects the people from the corruption which an everlasting peace would bring upon it. History shows phases which illustrate how successful wars have checked internal unrest and have strengthened the entire stability of the State. Not only do nations issue forth invigorated from their wars, but those nations torn by internal strife, win peace at home as a result of war abroad."
>From G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Law in Jacob Loewenberg (ed.), Hegel: Selections (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1929), pp. 464-65.
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--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Conservatism
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 11:54 PM
> *war is the health of the state*
>
> Randolph Bourne, of course.
>
> I used to read Scruton in The Salisbury Review. Weird Brit
> rightist thought from the 80s. Scruton endorsed massive meat
> eating (to verify "the chain of existence") and dancing the
> minuet, as free form rock/soul boogying was animalistic,
> undisciplined, and undermined authority.
>
> Dennis
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