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30. 67. It would always be at war with them ["intelligent human societies"]; but this war would only be a violent form of parasitism (already in essence forcible so far as it was fraudulent) which began by imitating its neighbours’ behaviour or stealing their tricks and ended by appropriating the fruits of their behaviour or stealing their goods.
30. 68. Let us dignify the acts by which our Yahoo leader imposes order on the Yahoo herd (30. 54) with the name of a ‘policy’. It would not be a policy because it would not be deliberately or freely decided upon; but let us call it one.
30. 69. Of that ‘policy’ war is an extension. The Yahoo policy is a systematic appeal to force within the Yahoo herd; not force dialectically conceived as preparing the way for agreement (30. 99), but force eristically conceived as operating by itself in a world of competing forces where the possibility of agreement is ruled out. Let policy be a name for the internal organization of the Yahoo herd, and Clausewitz is right: war is ‘a continuation of policy’.
Collingwood, R. G.. The New Leviathan. Read Books Ltd..Kindle Edition.
