How to understand that war is a continuation of politics? To talk about the continuation of the politics of war, we need to understand politics first.
The essence of politics is the regulation of social management. It is an activity that revolves around interests and is the manifestation of various forces in society, including class, political party, group, collective and individual interest balance activity. In politics, power relations are embodied in decision-making, resource allocation, and status, and are the core elements of politics.
To put it bluntly, the essence of politics is the pursuit of interests, and the distribution of interests through the forms and means of politics, politics itself is a class game or a pyramid game.
If we understand the nature of politics, we can understand war. To say that war is a continuation of politics means that the rule cannot continue, and the contradictions are more prominent and cannot be resolved, so they can only be resolved through war.
The war is divided into internal and external. For example, in World War II, especially Germany, the reason why Germany started the war was that the common people had a hard time and could not live any longer, so Hitler took advantage of the opportunity that the common people could not live and took the opportunity to promote the theory of blood, and also took the opportunity to target the Jews. This was equivalent to lighting a fire, and Germany was on the road to war.
For example, the civil war in Chinese history is a variety of peasant uprisings, such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, that's the case, make an assumption, Hong Xiuquan has been in the imperial examination, but unfortunately he is unlucky, he has not been able to pass the exam, what should I do if I can't pass the exam? If you can't pass the exam, you will rebel, if Hong Xiuquan is admitted, there will only be one more ruler who is attached to the royal power, not a rebel.
For another example, the Huangchao Uprising, Huangchao also went to participate in the imperial examination, but later found that no matter what, he couldn't figure out his background, and people with good backgrounds could easily enter the office, but Huangchao couldn't, so he simply picked up a machete.
If Hong Xiuquan and Huang Chao have a firm foothold, then Hong Xiuquan and Huang Chao have become men at the top of the pyramid and can play political games.
Looking back and summarizing that war is the continuation of politics, to put it bluntly, the essence of politics is governance and rule, responsible for the distribution of interests, when the distribution of interests is too excessive, that is, you can eat meat, others can also drink soup, when the people can't even drink soup, they will pick up the **, hope to reshuffle, so as to achieve the redistribution of interests.