Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters… - Kevin Carson

The manufacture of foreign crisis and war hysteria has been used since the beginning of history to suppress threats to class rule.

The single biggest subsidy to modern corporate capitalism is the subsidy of history, by which capital was originally accumulated in a few hands, and labor was deprived of access to the means of production and forced to sell itself on the buyer's terms. The current system of concentrated capital ownership and large-scale corporate organization is the direct beneficiary of that original structure of power and property ownership, which has perpetuated itself over the centuries.

War crimes are only committed by defeated powers. (But as the Nazis learned in 1945, unemployed war criminals can usually find work with the new hegemonic power.)