Abstract

The Peace Movement Now-II: Antiwar Means Pro-Democracy

In this article, the author discusses the meaning of the term "antiwar" by focusing current socio-political scenario of the world. According to W.H. Ferry, a social critic and peace advocate of the U.S., there is no peace movement in this country. There is only an anti-war movement, or an anti-intervention movement, or a disarmament movement; each focused on a particular war, military intervention or type of weapon. With the impending calamity in the Persian Gulf, that appraisal of the peace movement is likely to hold. In American perspective, antiwar strife is seen as a pro-democratic mater. The problem of money in politics is so deeply ingrained, and U.S. public officials so caught up in it, that Congress and state legislatures will, supposedly, never adopt serious democratic reform until they feel the heat of sustained grass-roots pressure from a broad-based citizens' pro-democracy movement.