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Originally Posted by roachboy
yeah but sooner or later you need to specify what exactly you mean by war, will. so far as i can tell, you are using an extremely wide understanding of the term, which is more or less defined as the absence of peace--which is also not obvious, definition-wise. so for example under capitalism, you can have "peace" between states and ongoing routinized brutalization of human beings at the level of production at the same time. this would be a problem if by "war" you really mean "violence"....in which case, there would be war and nothing but war.
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I think by war we mean a physical conflict between groups that causes damage and/or destruction of life and property. Violence is a more general word that could refer to an act by one person on another, or, perhaps, simply on oneself.
In other words, war is violence of great magnitude.
Peace, I think, would mean the cessation of such violence as war. It would be far-reaching to say we would want no conflict/violence whatsoever. For the purposes of this thread, it would be good to focus on the cessation of war as defined above as being indicative of peace.