War Is a Racket (Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC)(archive.org)

18 pointsby jamesgill5 mesi fa3 comments

War Is a Racket (Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC)

https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket

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For some context if you're unaware of who Smedley Butler is

"At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. military history."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

burnt-resistor5 mesi fa

Oddly enough, I couldn't find my paper copy but found a $4 one shipped on the interwebs. It's a tiny book and to the point.\

See also:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

- The Business Plot: Smedley D. Butler, Anti-Democratic Dissidence, and the Recession of the American Right 1932-1936 by Grant Stone 2021 [pdf] https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3259?v=pdf

- (Another article about the Business Plot.. rich people who desired fascism in America) https://connecticuthistory.org/gerald-macguire-and-the-plot-...

johnea4 mesi fa

So glad to see a mention of Smedley Butler!

He has been a long time hero of mine.

After a career pillaging for US corporate interests abroad, he realized he was being used, and presented his "pamphlet" to the US legislature, and toured giving anti-war speeches.

War _is_ a racket!!!

The fact that we're still dismembering and incinerating each other, to decide which rich asshat gets the goods, is the primary indicator that humans are still a primitive primate species...