Compare Charles Gould's "conquest of peace" in the last chapter.
At that point, it might have seemed like there was a difference between the "conquest"
of a benevolent idea and the "conquest" of war. But the logic of the
dream-ideal has now caught up with Gould and Avellanos: even a benevolent idea
must conquer physically and forcibly, and so they find themselves waging war in
the name of peace.