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Popular Defense & Ecological Struggles

By Paul Virilio

Book information

Year
1990
ISBN
0936756055, 9780936756059
LCC
HM283 .V5813 1990
Open Library ID
OL1037717M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2470016 bytes)
Edition
1st English ed
Pages
128\64
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

What is popular defense? From whom do we have to defend ourselves?Originally civilian populations were capable of defending themselves both in times of peace and war. A military racket was subsequently imposed upon them in the name of protection and popular defense lost its capacity to resist external attack. In case of total war, between the native populations which form the constitutional basis of all great modern states and the military now in charge of defending them there was no more "common culture." Industrial wars subsequently managed to replace the thousand-year-old pact of semi-colonization with total colonization. First experimented with in South America, this kind of "endo-colonization" (the military cracking down on its own population) was gradually extended to all the post-industrial countries through the exponential development of the techno-military complex.

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