The Structure of Lasting Peace An Inquiry Into the Motives of War And Peace
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I mean merely to assert again the always obvious and always ignored truism that the economic order presupposes a community not economic, which this order serves, and that modernity's elaboration of it incon- ceivably beyond the effective gratification of human needs is unnecessary, and indeed inimical, to the free life of mankind. In so far as this civil war which German dynastic interest has thrust upon the world seeks justification from the equating of economic advantage and political sover- ...[64] THE EUROPEAN STATE SYSTEM eignty with nationality, it seeks justification from a lie. In fact, the whole modem system of economic rivalries, supposedly inevitable under the " law of diminishing returns," is due to the misappropriation of economic endeavor to dynastic and capital- istic uses; is due to the militarist require- ment of a "self-sufficient" state. Just and free conditions of economic endeavor break this law. As Simon Patten has shown, variation of uses and extension of consum- ability not only keep returns at par or in- crease them; they also multiply the "divi- sion of labor" and so generate cooperative interdependence.
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