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Nothing: or rather, it is a phrase that serves to fire the blood of the unwary, filling their breasts with war-like enthusiasms and, like hungry wolves, they turn on their brethren who have not only done them no harm but whom they do not even know. * 2 MAGISTRATE: Is gold then the cause of the war? LYSISTRATA: Yes, gold caused it and miseries more, too many to be told. * 3 The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born. * 4 ...war can be called almost an upper-class sport. * 5 When the interests of the rich call for war, they goad us on, just like the farmer goad his oxen. * 6 You look at those big new houses out on River Road. What built half of them? Wars. Profits out of wars. * 7 ...the greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. The very moment the latter is undermined, capitalism will totter. * 8 In war, killing people and burning cities is thought to be a patriotic work. If successful it is considered to be right and fine. In industry the capitalists will enthralled small children, and the profits wrung from their pitiful toil goes to build churches and universities and support Christian missions. The murderous capitalist who robs cradles to get his gold comes to be praised as most "benevolent," "virtuous," "religious," etc. * 9 To the property-owning and commercial classes, the war as it dragged on was bound to equal a waste of material assets; assets which the Paris proletariat had never possessed. [Chapter 6: Trouble on the Left, Page 91.] * 10 National states, each jealously seeking to retain or increase its share of a contracting world economy, could no longer fruitfully or peaceably coexist but were doomed to constant conflict with one another. * 11 The rabble are in one of their damned apocalyptic moods. Looking for a figurehead. A catalyst. Talking about a general strike. They'll never learn. They need a lesson all the time. Damned rebellious cattle, send them to fight [the enemy] Thu, it's the only good we'll ever get from them. * 12 ..."France," or "Germany," and of other political and national agglomerations—results of historical struggles—as of homogenous ethnographic units, each having its proper interests, aspirations, and mission, in opposition to the interests, aspirations and a mission of rival units. This may be true relatively, so long as the oppressed, and chiefly the workers, have no self-consciousness, fail to recognize the injustice of their oppressors. There is, then, the dominating class only that counts; and this class, owing to its desire to conserve and to enlarge its power, even its prejudices and its own ideas, may find it convenient to excite racial ambitions and hatred, and send its nation, its flock, against "foreign" countries, with a view to releasing them from their present oppressors, and submitting them to its own political economical domination. ["Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles," by Errico Malatesta, from: Freedom, November 1914.] * 13 ...the commission of war is vice, and the effect of it misery... * 14 States...rush headlong, with light hearts, into ruinous wars, and persist in them with obstinacy; though the voice of humanity calls for peace in vain, the superiority of their nation does not yet appear sufficiently established, their enemy is not yet sufficiently humbled; the work which they thought accomplished has been overturned; it must be reestablished at any price. Present resources, however, are exhausted, and recourse is had to borrowing: credit is still entire; the national capitals are drained away from commerce, and placed, one after another, at the disposal of a minister, who dissipates them, and replaces them by assignments on the future; and the passion which blinded men for a few months, condemns their posterity to suffering for ages. * 15 They [the Government] stir up their own people and some foreign Government, and then pretend that for the well-being, or the defense, of their people they must declare war: which again brings profit only to generals, officers, officials, merchants, and, in general, to the rich. In reality war is an inevitable result of the existence of armies; and armies are only needed by Governments to dominate their own working classes. 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