[news] Armaments and War are Necessary Expenses for a Class Society

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Ruthless Criticism

[Chapter VI. of Karl Held and Theo Ebel, The Free World Wants War! (Resultate Verlag: Munich, 1986)]

The governing organizers of Western readiness for war do not accept the objection that the costs of armament are too high. They are equally unimpressed when people cite the sacrifices which are called for as soon as the threat which peace policy constitutes is put into practice. Those in charge definitely did not allow their strategic calculation for the case of war to be questioned on the grounds that the preparation and implementation of a great war do not pay off:

On the contrary, they insist that the free use of their violence is simply necessary for all the achievements of their “economy"-- so that the question of costs is superfluous.  


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