Is Anarchy a Cause of War?
Regular visitors know I applaud David Ray Griffin's efforts to discredit the Kean-Zelikow Commission's 571-page insult to the intelligence of the American people, and visitors to my philosophical workshop know I am very much in Griffin's Whiteheadian philosophical camp as well. But Griffin is a democratic anti-capitalist, a global one at that, and I am an anti-democratic anarchocapitalist. Griffin believes that international anarchy (i.e., the absence of global democratic governance), "being the permissive cause of the war system, is thereby the permissive cause of empires" and therefore of their wars. I show why I reject that argument in "Is Anarchy a Cause of War?". I hope others, perhaps even Professor Griffin himself, will find something in it worth replying to.
Posted by Anthony Flood on
Thursday September 28, 2006 at 7:15pm