He attempted to create a grand theory of capital accumulation to explain why capitalism had failed to fall apart. And that way only those who resist the support of dictatorships go missing or tortured. That is better.
Wars are simply dramatic death, out of the ordinary.
More people die in Canada in industrial accidents than those who are murdered. People have been so commodified and objectified that they are no longer even personell they are human resources. No different than a wrench or plow. It depends more upon where one is sitting as to whether or not that is an appropriate choice. I would submit that much of the angst within the left arises from that need to do it now.