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WAR IS A RACKET IBD

SMEDLEY D BUTLER
MARTINO FINE BOOKS
02 / 2024
9781684228737
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Sinopsis

2024 Reprint of the 1935 Edition.á Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. áButler was a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.áBased on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech 'War Is a Racket'. The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. His work was condensed in ReaderâÇÖs Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the ReaderâÇÖs Digest version, Lowell Thomas, who wrote ButlerâÇÖs oral autobiography, praised ButlerâÇÖs 'moral as well as physical courage'. Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering.The work is divided into five chapters:áááWar is a racketáááWho makes the profits?áááWho pays the bills?áááHow to smash this racket!áááTo hell with war!áIt contains this summary:áááWar 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 âÇÖinsideâÇÖ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of very many. á

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