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by Brendan Trainor. 
Written in the Summer of 2005, this article shows how Marxists and Libertarians in the anti-war movement view the causes and cures of war. Marxists see capitalism as the exploiter of humanity and the ultimate cause of war. Although their ideas have led to well over a hundred million dead at the hands of the state, their view of the world as conflict between owner and worker in the productive process still inspires the anti-war left. Libertarians understand that the productive process is not exploitative, but that government and its mercantilist cronies are the cause of war. Brendan shows where Marxists and Libertarians can agree, and where they ultimately must disagree if peace, not war, is to be the norm in human affairs.  click to download