POLITICAL FRIEND AND FOE
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The Concept of the Political is the extension of Der Begriff des Politischen in: Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik vol. 58, no. 1, 1927, 1-33. Schmitt contended that the political enemy need not be morally evil or aesthetically ugly...But s/he is, nevertheless, the other, the stranger…Neither violence ends violence in Mathew 26:52) nor wars end wars because no state was ever well prepared or empowered to enforce the violence termination; compromises led to peace treaties either being the losers or the winners but peace treaties were slightly above ceasefires to await new violence even wars; proxy wars or violence and conflicts were always possibly propelled; and new generations rejected their national histories and insulted their historical lessons. The best strategy to raise better global friendship and global harmony is the adage of Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (4-5th Centuries AD): Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace; prepare for war).
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