Emotional and Moralizing Staffage of War. On the Commodification of War in Conditions of Capitalist Accumulation

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explain the war against the background of the dissemination of the commodity economy in the conditions of global capitalism, where using capitalist expansion and political promotion of the idea of war – especially the idea of militarism – which results in gaining markets for the arms sector. A sector in which military technology is treated as an innovative and profitable commodity. The author will also discuss how capitalist countries use non-economic methods of operation to generate surplus value within their own economies. This means a political situation in which warfare – including the use of physical violence and armed combat during conflicts – is an area of search for profit, which is achieved under the aegis of emotional and moralizing staffage.