--- On Mon, 9/14/09, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Conservatism
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 11:35 AM
> The idea was advanced long before
> Bourne. Here is a quote from Hegel:
> http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Quotes/hegelnew.htm
>
> "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.
>
>
> Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html
> Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
>
>
> --- 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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