Socialism and anti-war

[miychi <miyachi9@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002.05.25 08:29 AM, "Jurriaan Bendien" <j.bendien@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Louis,
>
> While I am very sympathetic to your point of view in this regard, I
> would say there is - going by past experience - no guarantee that
> socialism would necessarily mean an end to war, unless you mean by
> "socialism" an "end to war", in which case we are dealing with a
> tautology. Given the experience of experiments with socialist
> transition in the 20th century, I would say paying more attention to
> the problems of socialist construction in advance of revolutions is
> valid and healthy\
>
> Regards
>
> Jurriaan
>
Jurian

To end war and to construct socialism are different things. Surely anti-war
movement is important to defend against capitalist violence and to make
people's mind , so in the sense anti-war movement can be integrated into
construction socialism but it is itself not to construct socialism.
Below is from Marx.

The International Workingmen's Association

General Rules
October 1864

That the economical emancipation of the working classes is therefore the
great end to which every political movement ought to be subordinate as a
means;

That all efforts aiming at the great end hitherto failed from the want of
solidarity between the manifold divisions of labor in each country, and from
the absence of a fraternal bond of union between the working classes of
different countries;