Man as Mere Cannon Fodder

So, if war isn’t the answer, what was the question exactly?

“Even with Europe in decay, still a war should have roused the healthy elements; a war should have awakened a lot of hidden powers, and surely so much energy would have been present among 250 million people that at least a respectable battle would have occurred, in which both parties could have reaped some honor, as much honor as courage and bravery can gain on the battlefield.”

- Marx & Engels, “The Boring War”, 1854

Code Pink Lod Haw Haw

Got Some Skin in the Game?

"Well, then, to carry out the principles of socialism do its believers advocate assassination and bloodshed?" "No great movement," Karl answered, "has ever been inaugurated Without Bloodshed."

- from a interview with Karl Marx, the Chicago Tribune, January 5 1879