War—What For?

by George R. Kirkpatrick

War, the war, is aggression and resistance—robbery and resistance—plunder and protest:—

(1) The aggressive industrial robbery by one class, and

(2) The resistance to industrial robbery by the other class.

Not only in the history of civilized peoples everywhere for thousands of years, but also in our own present-day capitalist society everywhere, we see this natural aggression and natural resistance.

The result today—as in the past—is struggle, war, class war—between the parasites and the producers.

The war is the class war.

Modern “foreign” wars are simply contests between different groups of capitalists (the workers of course doing the fighting and bleeding) to extend the area of opportunity for industrial class robbery, and are thus simply phases and extensions of the class war.

War, then, begins with aggression, continues with aggression; and is at present extended by aggressive foreign wars of industrial or commercial conquest.

To summarize.

(a) War, conflict, class aggression and class resistance, are inherent in all class-labor forms of society.