Felix Morley on the Totalitarian Nature of “Preventive War”

Further evidence of the totalitarian impulses of the neocon establishment is another statement in Felix Morley’s Freedom and Federalism (1959) about those who are part of a “messianic movement” to forcefully impose their stylized version of democracy on the rest of the world:

“The leaders of this messianic movement may, of course, renounce all conquest or imperial design, in keeping with their always humanitarian pronouncements. This was Robespierre’s attitude early in the French Revolution, as it was Lenin’s when communism gained control in Russia. But, even when sincere, such restraint is likely to give way before the more dynamic position of a successor — a Napoleon or Stalin — who must be aggressive in order to establish his own repute. Thus international stability is doubly disturbed, not only by the danger of aggression, but by the feeling that ‘preventive war’ may be the best way to overcome a threat that is psychological as well as physical in nature” (emphasis added).

Sound familiar?

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