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War Is a Racket (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

War Is a Racket (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Butler, Smedley Darlington
Thoreau, Henry David
James, William

Paperback

General Political Science

Publisher Price: $7.99

ISBN10: 1965684165
ISBN13: 9781965684160
Publisher: Warbler Classics
Published: Dec 15 2024
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Known as the Maverick Marine and Fighting Hell-Devil, Brigadier General Smedley Darlington was the most decorated U.S. Marine Corps officer in U.S. military history. Butler's 1935 lecture War is a Racket presents several key arguments against war and its profiteering nature. Among his points, Butler argues that wars are conducted for the benefit of a small group of insiders while the majority bear the costs, and that debt from wars is always paid by future generations. He recommends measures that, in his view, would mitigate armed conflict, including limiting the wages of executives, bankers, and arms manufacturers during wartime to match soldiers' pay. He forcefully contends that warfare is a profit-driven enterprise that exploits patriotism for financial gain. This Warbler Classics edition includes two other seminal anti-war essays: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau and The Moral Equivalent of War by William James, as well as brief biographical notes on Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, Henry David Thoreau, and William James.

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