Our Enemy, the State

This is just one of the reasons why the institution of the State qua State urgently needs to be questioned. The citizens of China or Japan would never by themselves entertain the idea of going to war with each other, least of all over a few tiny islands which they care not one bit about in reality (of course their governments are whipping up nationalistic fervor over the islands, but failing that, absolutely no-one would give a flying you-know-what).

Governments have killed 260 million people in the 20^th century alone. Without the State, this would never have happened. As James Corbett points out in a recent report, the religion of statism is the most dangerous and irrational belief of them all.