Spencer Heath Archive

Item 636

Random taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath.

December 1955

/Obsolescence of War/

Future historians will marvel at how long the war machines kept in operation in communities that no longer needed them.

“When were they no longer needed?”

In a very primitive state, people are not productive enough to live except very, very meagerly, and they natur­ally try to be predatory upon one another. One tribe is naturally at war with the other tribe. But as they become more civilized and develop an exchange system, a community mode of life, they become productive. And as they practice this Golden Rule capitalism, they no longer need to prey upon one another. But mankind does not discover that until ages after the event — that he has a means of sustaining himself without being predacious upon neighboring tribe or nation. Historians will marvel how long it took people to find out that they had another source of productivity, of creating their subsistence without having to raid others in order to keep alive.

All sovereignties today where there is an industrial system are supererogatory. They simply haven’t been outgrown. Of course, in order to be outgrown, that means that something else must grow. That is to say, our free capitalism must grow. As it grows, it will gradually displace the unneces­sary warring sovereignties.

/“How about a can of sardines in    the soup?”/

“Aggh!”