Note by Citizen Sofa - March 2018.
I put the S.L.A. blog up to explore in a (supposedly) humorous way ideas of PACIFISM and PACIFIST ANARCHISM and ANTI-NATIONALISM and ANTI-MILITARISM and INTERNATIONALISM and HUMANISM; as well as ANIMAL RIGHTS.
It was originally inspired by the Foot and Mouth Crisis. Which I think involved a lot of unnecessary slaughter of animals.
George Orwell - a writer I greatly admire - of course also used the metaphor of animals as humans in "Animal Farm".
Aldous Huxley - another great and very wise writer - wrote that only two species of animal - humans and red harvester ants - are known to engage in intra-species destruction or wars. I think we need to make it so it's just the red harvester ants.
I think we have to allow for a pacifist or pacifistic view in our consideration of the question of WAR and PACIFISM.
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Whilst this view has to be heard, I think the case for Pacifism needs also to be heard if we are to abolish war, as we must.
I am not entirely sure if pacifism in World War 2 would have been "objectively pro-fascist." It's an interesting question.
"War cannot be humanised, it can only be abolished." Albert Einstein.
"We are against all wars, all wars are against us." Bertholt Brecht.
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I think Peter Singer goes too far in his support for animal rights.
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Like Chomsky, I am not a pure pacifist, but I tend towards pacifism and I am hence pacifistic.
I also think a pacifist and anti-war perspective is absolutely vital.
For what it's worth, the Sheep Liberation Army is probably the only army I would ever join.
What about you?
"Citizen Sofa".
I put the S.L.A. blog up to explore in a (supposedly) humorous way ideas of PACIFISM and PACIFIST ANARCHISM and ANTI-NATIONALISM and ANTI-MILITARISM and INTERNATIONALISM and HUMANISM; as well as ANIMAL RIGHTS.
It was originally inspired by the Foot and Mouth Crisis. Which I think involved a lot of unnecessary slaughter of animals.
George Orwell - a writer I greatly admire - of course also used the metaphor of animals as humans in "Animal Farm".
Aldous Huxley - another great and very wise writer - wrote that only two species of animal - humans and red harvester ants - are known to engage in intra-species destruction or wars. I think we need to make it so it's just the red harvester ants.
I think we have to allow for a pacifist or pacifistic view in our consideration of the question of WAR and PACIFISM.
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“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.”
George Orwell,writing during World War 2.Whilst this view has to be heard, I think the case for Pacifism needs also to be heard if we are to abolish war, as we must.
I am not entirely sure if pacifism in World War 2 would have been "objectively pro-fascist." It's an interesting question.
"War cannot be humanised, it can only be abolished." Albert Einstein.
"We are against all wars, all wars are against us." Bertholt Brecht.
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I think Peter Singer goes too far in his support for animal rights.
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Like Chomsky, I am not a pure pacifist, but I tend towards pacifism and I am hence pacifistic.
I also think a pacifist and anti-war perspective is absolutely vital.
For what it's worth, the Sheep Liberation Army is probably the only army I would ever join.
What about you?
"Citizen Sofa".
