Christian Lous Lange
Christian Lous Lange
Christian Lous Langewas a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 September 1869
CountryNorway
created developed embracing market means opportunity transport
The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
claims nature state unlimited
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.
nations scope simply
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
becoming left state
It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.
cells eggs two
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
mean opportunity division-of-labor
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
mean civilization numbers
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
war europe world
Europe cannot survive another world war.
movement lasts firsts
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
practice division-of-labor program
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
spiritual mean people
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
struggle hands sovereign
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
war blessed shadow-of-death
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
reality political development
Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.