バートランド・ラッセル『ヒューマン・ソサエティ－倫理学から政治学へ』第２部[「情熱の葛藤」- 第２章- Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, Part II, chapter 7
* 原著：Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954* 邦訳書：バートランド・ラッセル(著),勝部真長・長谷川鑛平(共訳)『ヒューマン・ソサエティ－倫理学から政治学へ』(玉川大学出版部,1981年７月刊。268+x pp.)
『ヒューマン・ソサエティ』第２部「情熱の葛藤」- 第８章「征服?」n.7 |
Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, part II: The Conflict of Passions, chapter 8: Conquest ? n7 |
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The next step should be to allow truthful information to cross the Iron Curtain. At present, as everyone realizes, the Russians are not allowed to know the truth about the West. The West is not so well aware of the fact that a great campaign is being waged in America to purge libraries of books that give information about Russia. Such obstacles to mutual understanding ?do nothing but harm and only inflame the passions leading to the futility of a third useless world conflict. In what I have been saying hitherto on the subject of a Third World War, I have accepted, as was said above, some of the assumptions habitually made by military men, but I do not think it can be taken by any means as certain that these assumptions will be borne out by the event. If a war begins, as it well may, by the destruction of great cities, the total disruption of ?communications, and the setting ablaze of oil-fields, it may lead to large armies being left without food, and therefore ?driven to pillage. And this process might easily end in complete anarchy. In regions and countries that had lived on imported food, a large proportion of the population would die of starvation, while food-producing regions would have to share their ?crops with marauding soldiery. This would produce a situation like that when the Roman Empire broke up. Great States would melt away, and little local units would take their place. The leaders of robber bands would establish themselves as local ■despots and supply their bodyguards with adequate food in return for protection against popular fury. Such fighting as would continue would no longer be the grand organized warfare depending upon atom bombs, aeroplanes and oil, but a much more old-fashioned and primitive kind, such as could survive the destruction of all centres of industry. Out of sudi universal anarchy, mankind would probably climb in the course ?of a thousand years to a renewal of what is called "civilization”, which would enable them, if they had learnt nothing meanwhile, to repeat the whole useless process once more. |