Given that the world seems riven with fighting and wars, is it surprising that many people see conflict between humans as the natural state of things? Yet the vast majority of interactions that take place between human beings on a daily basis are cooperative, peaceful and harmonious.<\/p>\n
So why the contrast? It\u2019s because the root cause of modern wars lies not in any natural human inclination towards fighting or violence but in the rivalries between governments acting on behalf of their national capitalist classes for control of raw materials, trade routes and markets. In a stateless, moneyless world of cooperative endeavour \u2013 socialism \u2013 such rivalries would not exist and the natural human ability to cooperate rather than compete would come into its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-261244","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/261244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}