LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Twenty years ago, when I saw Italy risin’, when I saw the constructive
work toward economic justice startin’ in Italy, I had a wild idea, an
impractical idea due to my ignorance of economic geography at that
time. I say AT that time; I wish more men of my age would come out
and admit that they once knew less than they now know. Mr. Welles has
made a good step forward. He has talked of aggression of the selfish and
unenlightened kind. Well, aggression is probably selfish, and as for
economic cooperation, if Mr. Welles’ little group had started thinking of
economic cooperation WITH Italy ten years ago, we would most
certainly not be now in bloody conflict.
And I don’t think Mr. Welles is yet ready to make a dispassionate and
thought-out, reasoned, analyzed, articulate statement of the fact about
Italy and about Germany and about the corporate state.
I think a man in his position ought to make honest comparisons. There
is, God knows, enough ground for friction, there are enough REAL
contrasts of interests without building up false horizons. You don’t need
to slander an enemy, not when you are bombing his cities, his women
and children, the noncombattants.
A man might think he had to lie about some foreign country in order to
get a war started. But now the war is a goin’ on. It will take more than a
clear statement about either opponent to bring it to a conclusion.
Further slander or further misrepresentation of the nature of the Axis
regimes is just so much waste motion. Economic collaboration. That is
the front name and the last name of corporate organization. And the
doin’ away with the laws of God is part of the Russian program, not of
the Roman program. Hang it all, a new ethics has grown up, an ethics of
responsibility, of the responsibility of him that hath. The revolution goes
on, under the fireworks and the polemics.