Class war kills more people than military war.

[branders seine]

Do you agree?

Disagree?

Why?

[Warpy]

1. Poverty is the most efficient WMD

and poverty is a direct result of wealth concentration among the few.

You can't beat starvation and disease as methods for genocide.

[The Magistrate]

2. Of Course, Sir

All deaths from hunger, and most deaths from disease, are the product of the war of the rich against the poor. Indeed, it may not be possible to separate the categories you posit, as a great proportion of military war is actually class war carried out across national borders, or disguised as civil war.

[cali]

4. or the politically powerful against the weak

[branders seine]

7. bingo.

the current foreign occupations by the US military are purely artifacts of the class war, as are all wars of conquest ultimately.

[mike_c]

3. ain't that the truth....

eom

[conspirator]

5. I don't agree totally. Poor People are allowed to breed in the first Place

We are grown, not born.
We are needed as Cannon Fodder, and in fact we are the most important Resource, before Oil, that decides the Balance of power between the Rich. But we are just Resources. They need us and they don't.
If a Child born in the lower Class was likely to pose any Threat to the Status Quo, either all lower Class women would be sterilized or children would be immedialty taken from their mothers at Birth.

[Flaneur]

6. Shhhh! We can't say the word "class" in this country.

And the only class war is that of the poor against the rich, doncha know?

[Goldstein1984]

8. Military war is just one aspect of class war

It is the children of the poor who are sent to die for the benefit of the rich.

If the wealthy had to do their own dying, there would be less war.

[branders seine]

9. military war IS one front in the class war

the class war drives pretty much everything that is wrong with this country and this planet.

which US political party do you think is on "our" side in teh class war?

[Goldstein1984]

10. Easily ruling out both the Democratic and Republican parties...

If forced to pick a party (I'm registered Nonpartisan), I'd go Green.

[branders seine]

13. when will Americans wake up?

then when will they wise up?

Then when will they rise up?

[Goldstein1984]

14. I used to think soon

I don't thing that anymore.

[Echo In Light]

11. +1 - trick the disinformed so they *think* they know what they're killing/getting killed for

[Romulox]

12. Agree. nt

[jotsy]

15. The question, I don't think is that cut and dry.

Armies are sent to protect 'interests' of the corporatocracy and as such can not be totally separated from the class war definition. Recruiters for all branches of the armed forces are much more fervent in school districts considered less than affluent.

Military action is the iron fist on the body of the 'hyper rich' who wage the class war, it's a global one. Many publics across the sphere can only expect to one day fall unless the first domino, (and I think that's us) digs in and stands.

k and r

[branders seine]

16. yes. the military war is *part* of the class war.

ergo, the class war, if it has only one non-military victim, kills more people than the military war.