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The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

Christian Lous Lange

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Christian Lous Lange
Age: 69 †
Born: 1869
Born: September 17
Died: 1938
Died: December 11
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Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.
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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
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It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
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Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.
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Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.
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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
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In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.
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But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
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Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
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Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
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Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.
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No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
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The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
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