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Immanuel Wallerstein: "Perang antara negara dan orang tampaknya telah...

"Perang antara negara dan orang tampaknya telah ada di bawah semua sistem historis selama kita memiliki beberapa bukti yang tercatat. Perang jelas bukan fenomena khusus bagi sistem dunia modern. Di sisi lain, sekali lagi prestasi teknologi peradaban kapitalis sama bermanfaatnya dengan penyakit. Satu bom di Hiroshima menewaskan lebih banyak orang daripada seluruh perang di masa pra-modern. Alexander Agung dalam keseluruhan penyapuannya di Timur Tengah tidak dapat dibandingkan dalam hal destruktif dengan dampak Perang Teluk terhadap Irak dan Kuwait."

--- Immanuel Wallerstein

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.