The following paragraph is quoted from Out of Revolution, by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. Although some of the historical details are unknown to me, the overall thesis of this short argument is too evident and too relevant to be missed.
“Both Lenin and Hitler agree in one thing. First of all they realize that the farmer and worker are not interested in war, but beyond that, both are too much the pagan and the soldier not to use the fighting force and the discipline of a uniformed army. They abolish war by constantly using war machinery for internal purposes. In this respect, Mussolini is like them. The Pontine marshes, the Lira, like the coal mines of Donez, grain, money, raw materials, houses, homesteads are attacked, conquered and victoriously annexed by this new civil war strategy. The telegrams all read like reports from the front, whether it be Mussolini or Stalin who receives them. Powers usually only given to the executive in time of war are bestowed upon it in this present emergency because the emergency is the new warfare. Lincoln’s martial law measure of emancipation and Roosevelt’s New Deal powers are closely connected. Emergency is like war, and this holds good in many countries today. It is a great moment in the history of humankind when the energies of the race shift from martial laws to civil emergency laws. The armies enlisted against territorial enemies are superceded or outstripped by armies enlisting against nature. The change is so colossal, coming as it does after six-thousand years of warfare, that it can neither be achieved in a few decades, nor its scope understood by the passionate masses. Still, it is true, revolution has taken the place of war.”
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