Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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And that is one thing that as countries have gotten more developed and
As the world has changed, we've actually seen less and less war.
I won't dispute Pinker on this.
I think it's true.
Obviously, Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the conflict in Ethiopia is kind of an exception.
But on the whole, I think we're going in that direction.
But I think it's always been a major organizing plank of socialists against war and against just kind of this sense of...
right-wing nationalism and national identity that often leads to war.
And obviously, not everyone on the right has embraced that.
A lot of libertarians are consistently anti-war as well.
But I think the right ideologically has been associated with war, even if some advocates of capitalism have not been.
Well, a lot of it's government contracts, but it's privately produced, right?
By companies like Lockheed Martin and things like that.
You could draw a very crude materialist connection between any of these things and to kind of prove an ideological point.
But we could produce just as many arms and then just bury them or never fire them off or whatever else.
Obviously, there are companies that have a vested interest in...
Heightening up tensions or saying that we need to buy a new weapon system to be prepared for a conventional war with China, Russia.
Meanwhile, I think we all know that if there's going to be a conventional war between these countries, it's going to lead to something worse.
Yeah.
And, you know, no amount of advanced fighter jets is going to make a make a difference.
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