Why There's War

When will the American people wake up and accept that all wars are engaged and fought to make money so a select few can become even richer? These unconscionable money grubbing warmongers do not care about the deaths of our young people or the innocent people considered collateral damage. President Woodrow Wilson admitted that the war to end all wars, the war to make the world safe for democracy had, in fact, been an industrial and commercial war, which earned the United States $30 billion in World War I. The workers of the old International Workers the World (IWW), seeing it for what it is, had little desire to enter into the war. They tried to educate the working class, even Thomas Paine and Michael Bakunin, who is considered is one of the key anarchist thinkers and activists of the 19th century, tried to warn citizens. The IWW viewed ignorance as an essential collaborator in the continued smooth functioning of governments. In his “Rights of Man” Paine proclaims reason and ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. The people, unfortunately, are still very ignorant, are kept in ignorance not with good reason as one of the essential conditions of their power over people. Then came World War II and more killing and much more money made by the war machine—the military industrial complex. After WWII, there was the Korean war still going on and then the Vietnam war. More killing, more money made. And then we had Afghanistan and Iraq, and more killing of our children and innocents and making the rich richer. If Trump and Bolton have their way the U.S. will be in a war with Iran and North Korea, and any other country these cowards decide to bully all to make them richer. Trump and the Republicans are on a fast track to keeping our population ignorant by selecting the most incompetent people to run our governmental agencies, like Betty DeVos as head of the educational department, who, like the others, is trashing and burning our public education to ensure our children are ignorant, and Fox news, etc., is there to ensure adults stay that way. IWW’s Eugene Debs said, “Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses and there will never be another war on the face of the earth.”