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Some Lessons From the Russian Revolution
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For a revolutionary, the world is worthless and merits annihilation. Someone who thinks so must loathe life. “There is no greater joy, there is no better music than a crushing sound of smashed bones and lives,” a Bolshevik poet echoed in a hymn to obliteration. The Nazis “were destroyers,” argued psychologist Erich Fromm. “They hated not only their enemies, they hated life itself.” A zeal for annihilation is at the core of extremism, no matter what the orientation. Remarkably, emotional rejection of the world almost always precedes the destroyers’ ideological justification of a plan for its ruin.
In 2020, the world spent $1.83 trillion on defense, which marked an increase of 3.9 percent in real terms, the latest Military Balance report said. The amount that governments of the world spent on defense in 2020 was only slightly lower compared to 2019, The Diplomat reports.
The Military Balance report also said that economic output in the world contracted by 4.4 percent due to the pandemic. At the same time, military expenditures as per percentage of GDP increased from 1.85 percent in 2019 to 2.08 percent in 2020, the publication said.
In a nutshell, global economy has declined during the pandemic year, but military spending has remained on the level, which was nearly the same as in the previous year.
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