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chapter Introduction: The Question of Social Control -- chapter 1 War and the Professionals -- chapter 2 Militarism and 'Human Nature': The Phenomenon of Massacre and Genocide -- chapter 3 Militarism and Culture: Tribal Society -- chapter 4 Militarism and Motivation -- chapter 5 Militarism and Status: The Hundred Years War -- chapter 6 Militarism and the Territorial Imperative -- chapter 7 Militarism: The Economic Factor -- chapter 8 Militarism: The Political Necessity Argument -- chapter 9 Militarism and the Ethical Implications of Aggressive War -- chapter 10 Militarism, Games and Ritual Compulsion Excursus: The Phenomenon of Blood-Sacrifice -- chapter 11 Militarism as a Religious Imperative -- chapter 12 Militarism as a 'Test of Manhood' -- chapter 13 Militarism and the 'Warrior Death'.

Introduces a special journal issue. This issue of Social Justice revolves largely around prominent influences on public education, including corporatization, militarism, and communities mobilizing in defense of their own interests.

The thesis of this essay is that militarism is related to repression, both instrumental and structural. Not only is the military directly used in many countries to keep the population under brutal subjection; the very process of raising and maintaining armed forces (through such practices as conscription, special legislation restricting freedom of information and discussion related to military preparations, and elaborate devices for maintaining discipline and administering justice within the services) threatens, and often actually curtails, people's liberties. Structural repression is brought into play by militarism influencing social, economic and political life in ways that make coercion unavoidable. In the Third World, for instance, militarism has created a cycle of impoverishment, external dependence and exploitation. Similarly, in industrialized countries hyper-militarization (more markedly of the superpowers and their major allies) helps sustain, both directly and indirectly, the unequal global division of labour, under which the major economic role of the South is that of providing raw materials (including those which are non-renewable) at cheap prices to the North.

Table. ; Includes a brief biography of Liebknecht. ; "In September, 1906, Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the author, delivered a lecture on 'Militarism' at a conference of young people in Germany. The revised lecture was published in book form and the most important portions appear in the followings pages."--p. i. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44