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ManusJustus on 15 June 2009
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Kasz216 said:
ManusJustus said:

One of the great things about capitalism is that people would rather sell things to each other than fight, and that's coming from a socialist.

Also, it is very difficult for democracies to fight each other (the only one I can think of is the American Civil War, and its a stretch calling the South a democracy with less than 20% of the population being able to vote).  With the world as democratic as it is right now, I have a hard time seeing another World War unless a lot of social change happens.

Various greek wars, American Indian Wars, Spanish American Wars, Anglo American war, Franco Roman war, Finland fought for the Nazis in WW2, Indian Pakistan wars....


Democracies go to war with each other a fair amount.  It just depends on the people.  Democracies tend to go to war less because Democracies and capitalist socities tend to have better economic growth and less need to go to war.

You have a very loose definition of democracy.

Your only good examples are Finland, was actually fighting against the Soviet Union who were given Eastern Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty with Nazi Germany, and India verse Pakistan, though there was a lot of social conflict between Muslims and Hindus at that time and the Indo-Pakistani Wars started before Pakistan held its first election in 1970.  Your other examples are of democracies that leave a large percentage of the population out of the electorate or the representative government is limited in power to a king or dictator.

Economic growth isn't a reason not to go to war, nor is economic growth limited to captialist democracies.  Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Communist China have (or had) amazing economic growth.  Though China is a peaceful country (atleast in areas that dont involve what Communist China and Nationalist China consider to be part of China), Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were eager to militarily expand even with the large economic growth that they were experiencing.