>Economic theories are not the cause of wars, economic structures >that developed without any human intervention, and seem >to be oblivious to any government manipulation, are. "Economic structures that developed without any human intervention?" <G> If humans didn't develop them, who did? The chimps? The men from Mars? (Jay) Well, perhaps it is too subtle for you Jay, but I'll explain patiently: People were not consciously structuring slavery, feudalism or capitalism. It happened to them as a consequence of the physical environment including technological/economical development and in turn, social relations. However there were some conscious attempts to change or make up such as Athen's or Rome's "democracy", slave/peasant uprisings, the bourgois civil wars/revolutions to demonstrate, that homo sapiens were striving for a long time to totally break from the notion of living in bliss- ful ignorance, accepting insanity, like animals. Eva