War is a Racket
by: Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC Retired
War is a Racket
Read by: Jack Eddleman -- Time: 1 hour 1 minute
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A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering.
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[Adult (non-fiction) - oration] Originally published 1935.
Edited by: Lenny Lyons
This was a speech given by General Butler during a nationwide tour in the early 1930's, but it applies even more today! Listen as he frankly discusses, from his experience as a career military officer, how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He then suggests several practical solutions for reducing the pillage.
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Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (born July 30, 1881 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and died June 21, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and Republican candidate for Senate. Highly respected for his moral, as well as physical courage; he is quoted as saying: "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service, and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for Capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
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ISBN 978-1-937880-60-6
Audience = Adult 16+
Non-Fiction Subject = Oration
BIC = KJG1KBB (Business ethics and social responsibility)
DDC = 322 (Social sciences / Political science / Relation of state to organized groups)
BISAC = BUS008000 (BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics)
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