The transformation of warfare and the search for a new social order

The historical view of human conflicts reveals a profound change in the way societies are organized and how wars are waged. From the collapse of old traditions to the emergence of modern economic forms, a common thread is drawn, which describes the struggle for a just and peaceful world order. This text classifies what is happeningby spanning the arc from the ancient mercenary armies to capitalist warfare and to the disciplined revolutionary armies of modernity. It becomes visible how the transition from feudal structures to market-based systems has not only changed the economy, but also the morality and coexistence of people.

The danger of reactionary retreats

A significant present-day thinker reflects on how the movement of capital dissolves the traditional structures of the Old World in a cold stream of calculation. This state creates a deep crisis of the symbolic order of mankind. In response, many people tend to fall back into old traditions and identities. Such conservatismsPromise the hold and unchanging meanings, which are shaken by the world market. Both ways, both blindly clinging to the past and the asymbolic view of Western capitalism, lead to dangerous dead ends.

The true contradiction of society

The resulting conflict plunges mankind into an endless spiral of violence. Instead, it is important to recognize the true contradiction that exists between the unequal capitalist order and the pursuit of an egalitarian symbolic order. The young generation is on the verge of a new world and must devote itself to the task of a completely new kind ofto establish a social structure. They must be based on signs that can be constructed to construct a symbolic future. The philosopher celebrates her ability to travel, go into exile and set out.

The metaphor of inner orientation

It’s about a wandering that is guided by an inner compass and looking for a new symbol. One could think of great historical voyages of discovery where the land of the ancestral was abandoned in order to reach a supposedly praised country. However, the thinker draws on a different historical event, which is about Greek mercenaries. These were themselvesleft after their client fell in a battle. Expelled to foreign territory, these fighters decided to return to their homeland.

The economization of warfare

The idea is that you can make your way out of your true self. However, between this philosophical lesson and the historical reality of the mercenaries, it crunchs a lot. These Greek fighters had put themselves at the service of a foreign prince for a ringing coin. Her art turned into money, and they were professionals in thewarfare. The discipline of their army lineup was considered a civilizational norm.

The rise of the mercenary armies

Another theorist once noticed that the superiority of such armies was based on their ability to rein in anger and to be disciplined. Fighting the feudal economy with a feudal army meant moving in a vicious circle. The rulers strove to emancipate themselves from the troops bound to their feuds. from this point onwere found in the armies of growing parts of recruited and rented troops. These initially consisted mostly of foot soldiers, the extraction of the cities and the serfs of various origins who had run away.

The Financial Foundations of Modern War

They were used to occupy the cities and to siege service. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, however, Knights also began to enter the rental service of foreign princes. This indicated the unstoppable collapse of feudal warfare. A real big bang of modernity was the introduction of firearms. Capitalism arose not through productive power, but onedestructive force.

The mercenaries as social bodies

After the firearms were spread, the feudal followers could no longer wage war with their own weapons. The territorial states competed for the acquisition of guns and the construction of complex fortresses. Both had to be paid for with money, as did the professional soldiers, in whose hands warfare quickly passed. These soldiers formed the initial example of professionals wholived exclusively for their wages and who were indifferent to the content of their work. Soon the old taxes were no longer enough for the states and they levied more and more money taxes.

The commercial character of warfare

Farmers and craftsmen had to get used to producing directly with the aim of a monetary income for anonymous markets. Money penetrated the depths of society much more than in ancient times and dissolved local agriculture. This was done because of the unsatisfiable hunger for money that the military competition provoked. The money became the nerve of the war. citizen onefamous trading city knew how to use this by simply hiring mercenaries who fought for them.

The reality of the marauding armies

Previously, Italian city-states had already resorted to such condottieri. During the great European wars of religion, foreign armies, mostly mercenary crowds, marched through the territories. These armies gave up unpunished looting or tribute to the cities heavy tribute. They represented correct social bodies in which the mercenaries of allNationalities and religions confused for and through war. Another thinker emphasized the elective relationship between the mercenary and the bourgeois republic.

The Myth of Heroic Retreat

When citizens of a certain mountain region fought for their independence, they immediately silvered their glory of war. All political considerations disappeared, and the cantons turned into advertising tables to round up mercenaries for the highest bidder. The cynicism of a government that only seemed to be there to sell its country children remained unmatched for a long time. How is it in thisConnection with the soldiers of that historical withdrawal movement that the philosopher chose as a guide? They are similar to both the citizens described and the mercenaries of the great wars.

The economic infrastructure of heroism

They were professional soldiers who became masters in the art of war. The art of war required obvious virtues, while financial art was practiced in the dark corners of the world market. A famous poem ends with the verse that a high principle of violence commanded the customs. This is the result of the historical report, which is based on the conquests, the discipline and the heroism of thesefighter told. A connoisseur of history is not subject to any deception regarding the economic infrastructure, which makes it possible to assess heroism as a cultural value.

The sinking of the Grande Armée

Man is essentially a warlike being and is interested in beautiful armed forces. These Greek soldiers were mostly mercenaries, who were attracted by the prospect of high pay and rich looting. Not only did they rob cattle and food, they also sold people as slaves and burned down, which they could not drag. theNecessity was forced to provide for themselves at the expense of the people who had been criss-crossed. However, this does not excuse those robberies that served to return home with full hands.

The resistance of the local population

Europe has been established by distinguishing between Asia, based on military defense against Eastern empires and the clash with barbarians in the steppes. What could be considered a modern version of the glorious retreat? The entry of a famous army into a holy city of the East ended in a disaster. The triumphant entry should not take place, since thecity was empty and its inhabitants had left it. The soldiers had to do all the way to spread out over the rich, empty houses.

The Discipline of the Revolutionary Armies

The army was destroyed forever and something was created that can only be described as marauders. When they woke up, winter prevailed. The army had to get back on its way. In order to march, man needs the idea of the promised land to have the strength to move forward. The promised land when retreating was her home.

A new type of fighter

Now the Russian people rose and set the harvests and villages on fire to rob the enemy of food. They attacked the marching army in a tactic that went down in history as partisan war. The mansions of the People’s War rose with fearsome power and beat the invaders until the invasion was destroyed. The winter took overrest. In a way, the Persian peasants took revenge on the Greeks here.

The Legacy of Liberation

The situation of the mercenaries was strictly analogous to the situation of the Napoleonic soldiers. Both were on the retreat and had to deal with hostile locals. However, the Greek mercenaries victoriously pulled out of the affair by claiming the land as theirs. Decades later, it was completely different when revolutionaries persecuted a legendary long marchthe propaganda turned this escape into an epic.

The vision of a peaceful future

Far from reproducing the behaviour of the Greek mercenaries, the communist peasants, when they moved into the economic capital, proved that they had come to court the city and not to rape it. These lightly armed men walked hundreds of miles. They slept in front of the doors of the high-rise buildings, without entering the residential buildingssoldiers who don’t steal, don’t loot, and sleep on the sidewalk had never been seen in this city. They even swept the sidewalks clean before they set out.

Overcoming violence

Similar behavior was noted among indigenous fighters in Mexico, whose resistance to the looting never waned. These Native American farmers roamed the streets sporadically, their coins firmly in their hands to buy their food. They had come to liberate the capital, without pride or fear, but with a certain humility. The brothers-in-arms of antiquity were fromother wood and destroyed it all along the way. We want to prefer the movement of the decline of a Greek mercenary flock to the movement of another thought.

The end of the martial tradition

That speech, delivered before a revolutionary convention on the reorganization of the army, emphasized that victory can only be achieved by spreading the republican spirit among the troops. Or even better, the ancient prophetic vision that people forge their swords into plowshares and their spears into winemakers’ knives. This will lay the foundation for aIn which no nation raises its sword against another. From now on, humanity’s learning will no longer be directed towards war, but towards the peaceful construction of a just society. The true greatness lies not in the discipline of destruction, but in the ability to create a new symbolic order of equality.