Bertil, As nobody has responded, I would very much like to continue reading your article. Would you please post the rest of it for the list? Abdalbarr -----Original Message----- From: juenger-list-admin@juenger.org [mailto:juenger-list-admin@juenger.org]On Behalf Of Bertil Haggman Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 4:17 PM To: juenger-list@juenger.org Subject: [Juenger-list] Global civil war Dear listmembers, Being unvoluntarily cut off from the list for some months I just want to show that I am back again. Have always found the term "Weltbuerger- krieg" of interest and for a few years have had several versions of a short study on the matter prepared. Underneath is the first section of one of the versions. Martin Meyer in his Juenger biography 1990 claimed that it was Carl Schmitt that had created the term: "Der Begriff vom Weltbuergerkrieg ist vom Carl Schmitt uebernommen, der ihn seit der dreissiger Jahren zuerst untergruendig, dann offener mit seiner These vom Ende des klassischen europäische Völkerrechts verband." I have excluded the notes here but would be grateful for any views on the excerpt underneath. Bertil Häggman GLOBAL CIVIL WAR – A TERMINOLOGICAL AND GEOPOLITICAL STUDY by Bertil Häggman I The term "global civil war" (Weltbuergerkrieg) is of German origin. There is some doubt about who first used it. Ernst Jünger 1) already during the Second World War was a strong believer in a global state ("Weltstaat"). It was questionable, so Jünger, if the national state in the 20th century had a future. The era of empires assisted Germany and all other national states had lost the war. The hope of the future was a United Europe built on a German-French union. Such a European state would be in the position to act as a third force between the superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet Union raised the question (and it remained at least from 1991 to 2001). if the world was going into a phase of tripolar or quadripolar division (the United States, Europe, Japan and/or Russia, possibly China). For Jünger the belief in a United Europe seemingly was replaced by that of a global state. In such a state the armies of the world would become interstate police forces: "...Souverän ist nich dieses oder jenes Volk, sondern der Mensch als solches in einer Einheit, die seit dem frühesten Auftreten des Spezies verloren gegangen ist. Zum ersten Mal seit den Zeiten des schweifenden Jägers werden die Grenzen hinfällig oder verlieren der Bedeutung von bewachten Markierungen. Damit die Erde eine neue Heimat." 2) Thus NATO could be transferred into WUTO (World Unity Treaty Organization). 3) Already during the Second World War Ernst Jünger referred to the global state 4) and he also used the term "global civil war" to seemingly designate the two world wars. The term can also be found elsewhere in his writings: "Damit soll nicht der Vorgang als schlechthin sinnlos abgeurteilt sein. Es kann nicht helfen, dass man die Augen vor ihm verschliesst. Er ist ein Ausdruck des Weltbürgerkrieges, in den wir begriffen sind. Das Ungeheure der Mächte und Mittel lässt darauf schliessen, dass nunmehr das Ganze auf dem Spiele steht. Dazu kommt die Gemeinsamkeit des Stils. Das alles deutet auf den Weltstaat hin." 5) It has been claimed 6) that the term "global civil war" was first used by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy 7) in 1931 in the book _Die europäischen Revolutionen und der Charakter der Nationen_. This claim seems to be incorrect. 8) _______________________________________________ Juenger-list mailing list Juenger-list@juenger.org http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/juenger-list
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