![]() ![]() ![]() This conception, which considers only events on the European continent, does not notice that the very reason why we have had no war in Europe for decades is the fact that international antagonisms have grown infinitely beyond the narrow confines of the European continent, and that European problems and interests are now fought out on the world seas and in the by-corners of Europe. ![]() Only were one suddenly to lose sight of all these happenings and manoeuvres, and to transfer oneself back to the blissful times of the European concert of powers, could one say, for instance, that for forty years we have had uninterrupted peace. At the present stage of development of the world market and of world economy, the conception of Europe as an isolated economic unit is a sterile concoction of the brain.Īnd if the idea of a European union in the economic sense has long been outstripped, this is no less the case in the political sense. First of all there exist within Europe among the capitalist States – and will so long as these exist – the most violent struggles of competition and antagonisms, and secondly the European States can no longer get along economically without the non-European countries. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit contradicts capitalist development in two ways. Concepts like growing 100 of your own food (much of the world doesn’t even have a grocery store), producing 100 of your energy through renewable sources, building your own earthen or other sustainable structure, communal approaches to recreation, education, and a social architecture of personal growth and people doing and sharing what they lov. “Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.” But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. “But who would build the roads if there were no government? ![]()
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