Pacification as a key problem of politics in international political thought

This article is a response to Paul Kelly's discussion of Lenin and Mao in Conflict, War Revolution: The problem politics international political thought (2022). Taking on postcolonial perspective, it analytically expands how the book theorizes violence by understanding capitalist colonial domination as paradigm war that structures pacified social relations politics. paper proposes pacification, phenomenon spans different kinds modern nation-states, begs for distinct theory thought. In so doing, places Marxism, Post Colonialism, Coloniality/Decoloniality, Settler Colonial Studies, Anglophone Indigenous thought, post-structuralism Brazilian Anthropology conversation reveal shared genealogies anti-colonial, decolonial anti-capitalist without uncritically collapsing these traditions.