If you advocate Peace, I encourage you not just to think about the end of war but the cause of war. I do not advocate war but I’ve yet to meet a person who advocates peace whom also has an understanding of the violence caused by importation and exportation. Peace is really a hollow misrepresentation of our exploitive capitalist fundamentalism.

Peace being such a red herring has turned its own symbol into a capitalist agenda. Peace signs are for sale. They are stamped on t-shirt, purses, necklaces, and decorations for your car, all items of which are mass produced in some far away land, using far away resources, exploiting far away people. This is what peace has turned into but this is not what is meant by ‘give peace a chance’.

Every object you own and all of the food you eat that is pushed through an oppressive capitalist system, traveling great or small lengths is an item that represents the opposite of peace. Who are we going to let draw the line between exportation and exploitation, Gandhi?

He wouldn’t support the idea of peace signs being manufactured and sent far away through a demoralizing destructive system called an economy. Which brings us to what the people who advocate peace should really understand, the opposite of peace is not war, it is an economy larger than an ecosystem. War is simply a side effect.