Martin Shaw
Dialectics of War
An Essay in the Social Theory of
War and Peace
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First edition, London: Pluto
Press 1988.
Out of print: being republished on this site during
2000-01
Contents
Preface. Acknowledgements
1 Critique of Sociology and Military Theory
(this chapter now available to download)
- the failure of social
theory
- the limits of strategic
thought
- the social dialectics of
war
2 Military Industrialism and
the Phases of Total War
- industrialised warfare
and politicised economics
- war economies and total
war
- nuclear-war economy
3 The Politics of Total War
I: Revolution, Totalitarianism and War
- revolutionary origins of
total war
- contradictions of mass
militarism
- war as the arbiter of
revolution
- Stalinist
totalitarianism and total war; Nazism
- total war and genocide
- politics in the second
phase of total war
- revolutionary warfare -
its historical limits.
4 The Politics of Total War
II: Rise and Fall of the Military-Democratic State
- 'participation' in total
war
- technology and strategy
- national experiences in
the Second World War
- crisis of the
'military-democratic' state
5 Beyond the Politics of
Total War
- nuclear militarism and
social participation
- implications for social
movements
- peace politics and
socialism
- the politics of defence
- a philosophy of
'historical pacifism'
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