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The private and exclusive control of that which all need to survive, realize, and enjoy life, and their exploitation to increase the wealth of a small mostly white and male ruling class is the cause of both growing inequality and the instability and political violence that legitimates the growth of the security state.   Jeff Noonan contends that the inequality and increasingly totalitarian practice of current systems of democracy proves that democratic ideals cannot be fully realized in existing institutions. These institutions are bound up with an economic system based upon private and exclusive control of the resources and wealth everyone needs in order to enjoy a meaningful life as socially self-conscious agents. However, this fact does not mean that democratic values are wrong, only that their realization demands a different set of social structures and institutions. 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Moral economies of war reduce human life to an instrumental value of some higher political goal: national security, national liberation, justice for historical wrongs suffered, the revolutionary overthrow of all conditions that oppress humanity.  The book argues that the moral economy of war is both materially irrational and morally incoherent: every instance argues that the lives of some must be sacrificed for the sake of the lives of others. Moral economies of war thus assume that life is of ultimate value (otherwise, why fight) but they subordinate this value to some non-living system goal. Moral economies of peace, by contrast, start with life as the ultimate value and interpret all other political values in light of it. National security, justice, or radical social changes are political values only to the extent that they demonstrably improve life conditions for each and all. 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