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and death) specificity beyond the name (of the man, not the
horse). It should be noted that such monuments have two very
important characteristics in common: they are made of solid
material (like granite, not limestone, steel, not iron) because
they are made to last, to carry a message through many
generations. And they are placed in public, not private, space to
serve as a common reference and indoctrination point for all.
28. And: a capacity not to enter into conflict, and to have
cooperative relations in addition, and any of them. The world is
according to Kropotkin, not only according to Darwin. I indebted
to Jos‚-Maria Tortosa for this point.
29. The parts of international law regulating the right to wage
war, and how to fight war.
30. Treaties before, during and after wars tend to have secret
clauses, the Katsura-Taft memorandum of 1895 between Japan and the
USA defining zones of interest in East Asia; the Sykes-Picot deal
of 1916 sharing the Arab spoils of the Ottoman Empire; and the
Molotov-Ribbentropp deal of 1939 sharing Eastern European spoils
being good examples. What happens here is that even hostile
governments may reach agreements but keep them secret in order to
deceive their own peoples. Thus wars are not only across the
fault-line dividing states and nations, but also across the class
fault-line separating governments/elites from their peoples. An
as to the lying/propaganda: this is where the difference between
war journalism and peace journalism enters, see Jake Lynch et al.,
The Peace Journalism Option, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, SL6 0ER, UK:
Taplow Court, 1998.
31. Of course, there is a distinction between the subjective and
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