Smedley D Butler - War is a Racket (1935) pdf - roflcopter2110 [WWRG]

Smedley D. Butler - War is a Racket (1935) pdf - roflcopter2110 [WWRG]



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Genre: Antiwar
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1503081575
ISBN-13: 978-1503081574
Format: PDF

General Smedley Butler’s frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests. This extraordinary argument against war by an unexpected proponent is relevant now more than ever.

Famous booklet by the ex high ranking Marine.

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.