War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

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E. J. Hobsbawm: "War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself."

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Abolition	Accident	Achievement	Against
Beyond	Capitalism	Communities	Convenient
Economy	Enterprise	Equally	Fitfully
Foreigners	Give	Important	Incentives
Itself	Left	Lives	Makes
Market	Merely	Modernization	Most
Outsiders	Power	Practicable	Private
Problems	Profit	Provides	Pseudosolution
Pursuit	Recreate	Revolution	Sense
Such	Technological	Temporary	Them
Thinkable	Twentiethcentury	Unemployment	Uniting
Unthinkable	Votes	Women

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War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself. - E. J. Hobsbawm