Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1900

Pencil note in margin of page 12 of Vernon H. Holloway, Religious Ethics and the Politics of Power (New York, The Church Peace Union, 1950)

 

Original is missing.

 

 

 

 

/Holloway: “Nothing we can do in our time will radically transform the nation-state system and remove its inherent anarchy and insecurity. There are, however, many kinds of constructive action which could help to channel and to regulate the massive struggle for power, which could serve to limit the strife of nations and to keep it within bounds, improving the political and economic conditions under which the United Nations endeavors to function.”/

       (Emphasis by Heath)

 

 

No ‘security’ or ‘protection’ that rests on aggression against the ‘protected,’ such as taxation or any other coercion, can be anything itself but an aggression. The end is implicit in the means (Emerson).