of two types of soul: one weak, indecisive and vulnerable because it is dependent on its environment; the other powerful because it has put its "mana, '' its will, out of reach thanks to its deterritorialization, to the sophistication of its economy and viewpoint.
Clausewitz says nothing else when he answers the question, "What is war?" with, "War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will." We cannot exclude from war the problem of wills, despite the fact that Clausewitz immediately mutilates and bastardizes his definition by hastening to add that there can be no moral violence outside of the concepts , of State and law. In fact, more than political and intelligent objectives of warfare, more than social or national rivalries, Clausewitz's definition already suggests the creation of the "presence in the wo rld" of bodies without will. More than of an art of war, we think here of "techniques of animal bodies," an indelible dichotomy between the invader's moving-power and his relative inability to free his movements from the herd of workers.
Depending on the time and the latitude, the multitude of bodies with no soul, living dead, zombies, possessed, etc. , is imposed all throughout history: a slow-motion destruction of the opponent, the adversary, the prisoner, the slave; an economy of military violence likening the human cattle to the ancient stolen herd of the hunter-raiders, and by extension, in modernized and militarized European societies, to the soulless bodies of children, women, men of color and proletarians.
In total war, the Nazis will do nothing diferent when they create an internal social front against the foreign bodies of Jews, gypsies and Slays. The deportation camps are but the laboratories in which the cattle are treated industrially-put to work in the mines, on logistical worksites, subj ected to medical or social experiments, the ultimate recuperation of fats, bones, hair . . . Or, a happier final solution, as exchange value for other energy sources: fuel, trucks and military vehicles, through the intermediary of neutral countries; a whole classical economy of hostages, abductions and displacements-the preferred forms of dromocratic violence.
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