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Why war is the regulator of human history

War is "a supreme form of struggle for resolving the contradictions between classes and classes, peoples and peoples, nations and nations, political groups and political groups, at a certain stage of development". Therefore, war is the product of irreconcilable contradictions.

In fact, with the theory of dialectical materialism, everything has its two sides. War is not always a bad thing, and I certainly don't think it is a form of "natural selection". But it is true that war is the era of the greatest technological advances. And I agree with Chairman Mao that there are just and unjust wars. That is to say, some wars must be fought! For example, the war against Japan. Clausewitz's Theory of War said that war is a continuation of politics, and I agree. But once people have tasted the delicacy of war, they forget about other political means. It's human nature, isn't it? Lazy and greedy. Of course, its destructive. War can devastate some countries and regions, displace some families, hit people hard psychologically, many countries and regions have to face reconstruction, and historical artifacts can be severely damaged to some extent.

Said war is the regulator of human history, I think:

1, the demand for weapons and equipment to promote the development of science and technology, industrial manufacturing and so on. Rapidly developing military science and technology are eventually converted into civilian use, which in turn improves the standard and quality of life of the general public. Germany (the development of the typical automobile industry, wartime Tiger tanks, modern BMW, Mercedes-Benz!) For example, the continuous extension of the development of the airplane manufacturing industry. After World War II, social progress soared The end of the Great War less than 30 years mankind on the moon.

2. The treatment of casualties contributed to the development of medicine. Discoveries like penicillin, etc., to the emergence of nursing talent, such as Nightingale.

3. The demands of war promoted the development of energy. The development and utilization of oil, coal, natural gas, human development to a new stage.

4, war causes a large number of deaths and injuries, but at the same time for the development of society, and promote human reproduction, integration. Large-scale wars can eliminate a large number of people, in a considerable period of time can solve the problem of population, so some strategists also proposed to use the war to eliminate a certain population, and even in the Second World War Germany and other countries on the persecution of the old, the sick and the disabled, but it is undeniable to the reduction of the pressure on the community, but in terms of the greater good, it is indeed very unethical.5, the economic recovery after the war, and at the same time brought about a new development. After Qin Shi Huang started the war to unify China, China's various currencies, weights and measures were standardized, and the development of agriculture, trade, industry and commerce contributed to the progress of society.

6, the war itself is a conflict of human culture, is the result of cultural expansion. War is the spread of culture! It is also the resultant process of inappropriate culture! For example, the spread of what is now called Western democratic culture in some countries.

7. War can also promote national **** integration and bring advanced science and technology to the backward side. Britain and other warring countries to bring the slave social system of other countries into capitalism at once is also a kind of promotion, the opium wars promote the disintegration of thousands of years of feudal traditions, and promote the formation of the bourgeoisie. In science and technology, the First World War led to the steam revolution; the Second World War led to the technological revolution; new electronics, antibiotics, jet airplanes, the Global Positioning System, and the Internet - all remnants of the Second World War and the Cold War. In essence, war only breaks out when there is great social conflict, and war redistributes the benefits to conform to social trends, so there is usually great economic development after the war, which is the testing ground for technology.

8. War promotes the progress and development of mankind, and this fact has been proved by the long river of history. If someone says, without the war, mankind will be better and faster development, that is just assumptions, hypotheses, is a wishful thinking, because the history of mankind is the history of war. Let us turn over the long river of history to see, since there are human beings, the war has been accompanied by us without pause, than the war to the absence of war moments less pitiful, the human beings on earth almost all the time in the war ......

Evading the war, the preaching of peace is to deviate from the law of social development of the people, the people. It means they have forgotten history and do not understand it. Today we have all the science and technology, culture, philosophy, economy and history, are the product of war, it is the war let us recognize the heroes and villains; it is the war let our character become noble; it is the war let us remove the dross and take the essence; the war can break the stalemate of the world's economy; the war may let us human beings recognize a new energy source; the war can break the old and establish the new, in the new horizon to rebuild a more beautiful human home.

It is said that from the time mankind has recorded history until today, the days without war have not added up to a year. So all in all, it's that classic saying: where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are naturally fights.

Of course we don't want war, the damage of war is indelible, and the pain of that kind of suffering on the human heart is difficult to smooth out.