[Dean's World] Rudy Rummel: On *Freedom's Principles*

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Posted by Rudy Rummel:
On *Freedom's Principles*
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1149559865.shtml


   I have been working for over a year on my interactive book in
   progress, Freedom's Principles: Principles Toward Understanding And
   Promoting Democratic Freedom At Home And Abroad, which I set up as a
   [1]blog here. It is now done through the third draft. With this book
   complete, I'm not sure what to do with it. I can leave it as a blog,
   make it downloadable free from my website, or try to find an agent
   that will help publish it. I've had such bad experience with agents
   (I've accumulated about 50 rejections or no responses on those I've
   tried for my The Blue Book of Freedom, that I'm reluctant to put in
   the time on trying to find one for this book. Anyway, there is no
   hurry and it is available already on the above blog.

   I can't end my link to it and the ideas contained therein without
   including here what is an appropriate conclusion. This is the final
   chapter of my [2]The Just Peace, Vol. 5 of my Understanding Conflict
   and War (published by Sage Publications, and all on my websiteâsee
   under "Books" of my [3]"documents on site"):

                                 CONCLUSION

    From every mountainside Let freedom ring. ----Samuel Francis Smith,
                                  America

     From the beginning of these [five] volumes two basic questions have
     focused my efforts. Are violence and war inevitable? If not, what
     can be done about them? I can now give my answers.

     What each of us wants and can and will pursue will change in time.
     Corresponding social adjustments must thereby be made with others.
     And unavoidably, some necessary adjustments will be dammed up by
     conflicts over vital interests and antagonistic views of truth,
     morality, and justice. Violence is then the inevitable recourse,
     the ultimate means, of conflict resolution and social adaptation.

     This does not mean that a particular type of violence is certain.
     Nor is widely destructive, collective violence necessary. And
     especially, war between or within states is not inevitable. Rather,
     the violence that is used and its intensity is a matter of
     society's structure and culture.

     Particularly, minimizing the intensity of violence and eliminating
     war requires promoting and protecting a free society--an exchange
     society--at the national and international levels. For a lasting
     and just peace, restrict and limit government.

     In total, some violence is inevitable; extreme violence and war are
     not. To eliminate war, to restrain violence, to nurture universal
     peace and justice, is to foster freedom

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References

   1. http://freedomism.blogspot.com/
   2. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/TJP.CHAP13.HTM
   3. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/LIST.HTM
   4. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NH.HTM#SUPPLEMENT