Freedom and civilization / by Bronislaw Malinowski.

  • Bronisław Malinowski
Date:
1944
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Credit: Freedom and civilization / by Bronislaw Malinowski. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 War and Slavery as Main Denials of Freedom 1 HE political principle in the sense of military force exists in the whole domain of cultural history, and as we know, the results of the use of political force can either be constructive or can bring about disaster. War has two aspects, that of waste and that of creativeness. Thus there are two types of war: the war of cross¬ fertilization, and the war of extinction which is without any creative or constructive after effects. All civil wars are wars of extinction, for which the only remedy is their prevention forever, by means of a federation of states. The main positive function of war is its unifying cross-fertilizing effects through the creation of larger sized units which thus have a greater scope for develop¬ ment through bringing different cultural units into closer rela¬ tionship. With genuine war, that is, the international use of arbitrament by force, we enter on a new stage in human evolution, a stage in which both state and nation assume new roles. Here we can for the first time register aggressive nationalism or imperialism* Here also we meet the phenomenon of conquest in its full his¬ torical and cultural sense. Conquest in this form is the submission by military victory of one culture to another and the incorpora-
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