War is a Racket

 Capitalist War Cliches: 

Smart Bombs are Smart

No Civilians Are Hurt

None of our Soldiers Have Been Killed

Many More of Their Soldiers Have Been Killed

Generals are Geniuses

Our Leader is a Genius

All Our Soldiers Are Happy

All Our Civilians Love this War

We’re Going to Win

The Other Side is Going to Lose

The Other Side Tells Only Lies

We Always Tell the Truth

It Won’t Cost Much

This War Has No Impact on Domestic Affairs

The Other Side is a Dictatorship / Puppet / Moneybags / Fascists / Inhuman / Corrupt / Satanists / Evil / / Infidels / Sub-human / Imperialist, Etc.

Anything we don’t like is a False Flag

That was an Accident

They Made Us Do It

We Had No Choice

Economics has Nothing to Do with this War

No, it’s Not About the Money

We Don’t Commit War Crimes

We are the Good Guys

The Other Side is Pushing Nuclear Winter

It’s Their Fault

Domestic Repression is Necessary for the Fight

Prison and Illegality are the Fate of all War Opponents

We are Anti-Imperialists

They are Imperialists

Our Nation, Not Their Nation

In a Capitalist War, One Side is Always Right

Choose us, choose us!

Sound familiar?  Apply as Needed.

Or… revolutionary defeatism, fraternization among warring soldiers and civilians, oppose our governments, no voting for ‘war credits,’ international working-class unity across national borders, oppose capitalist war and for permanent peace, up to a social revolution.  If possible, sabotage of the war makers and even turn the guns around on the war-makers, their officers, their thugs.  Make peace.

Prior blog reviews on this subject:  “The Yellow Birds,” “War is a Racket” (Butler); “The Civil War in the United States” (Marx-Engels); “Ken Burns,” “A People’s History of the Vietnam War,” “Hiroshima & Nagasaki,” “Strategy of Deception,” “1917,” “Leaving World War Two Behind” (Swanson); “What Is It Like to Go to War?” and “Matterhorn” (both by Marlantes); “Soldiers in Revolt,” “The Unwomanly Face of War” (Alexievich); “American War,” “We’re Doomed, Now What?” “King of Spies,” “Lieutenant Dangerous,” “Coleen Rowley on Russiagate,” “Tree of Smoke” or the word ‘war.’

The Cultural Marxist

8/20/2022