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In regard to his attitude toward war, Marx was, of course, influenced
by the idea of the Manchester laissez-faire liberak. In using the term
"Manchester UberaHsm" ah^a^•s as an insult, wt tend to forget the essential
statement in that famous declaraoon of the Manchester Congress where
the term originated. It was said there that m the wx>rld of tore trade there
is no longer any reason for nations to hght one another. If there » tire
trade and every nation can enjov* the products of e>rT>' other nanon. the
most important cause of >*'ar disappears. The pnnces are mterrsted m
increasing the territorial size of their prmceh' prDf\'ince to get greater
income and power, but nations as such are not imerrsted, because it doesn\
make any difference under free trade. And in the absence ol* immigration
barriers it doesn't nutter to the indiMdual citi/en whether his countrv' ts
large or small. Therefore, according to the MancheMer Liberals, war wiU
disappear under popular democranc rule. The people will not then be in
favor of war because ihc>- ha\T nothing to ^in—the>- havt only to pay and
to die in the war.
It was this idea that was m the mind ctt President |WoodnT%%-| WiKon
(1856- 1924 1 when he \%rnt to war against Ciermam- What I*re%Hient
W»Ist>n didn't see was that all thi\ about the UMrle\snr» ol'war » true only
in a world when there is free trade betwren the nations If ts not tr\ie in a
world ot intcrvrntionmn.
Sir Norman Angcll | tK72-l^Xw| aili argues in the vanie wn- What did
the individual (icrnum gam in IH7n' This was alnKnl tr\ie then, because
there was comparativrlv frre trade Hut foda>- the sitxution ts dilfrrmc
Italy's irxn policies nude it tmpinsible tor Italuns. in the worid of
inicrvcniionism. to get the raw nuieruls che\ needed if n not tnic in
toilay's inter\rn(ionist \\t>rid that the iiHlnidual penon dors not Ktan
something tn>m war
I he I eaguc of Nations is one t>l the great tailurrs in «k\)rld hutocy
and there have been iiunv tailurrs in \%\>rid hisior\- I Hiring the Lrjf(ur\ 20
\rars the trade barrierv had been im>re and im^re inteimlied Tariff became
unimportant as trade barriers because embargoes v^rre established
IJciausc the hbcrals said war was iu> longer e\ orHmm ally advantageoui
because the people will not gam anything fn»m it. therefore, a dnnocratK
lutum will no longer t>e eager to fight wars Marx assumed that this was
true c\-cn in the intersrntionist \%x>rid which was dcsrlofnng under till
very- cnts This was one i>t the tundamental error* of' Marxism Marx was
not a pacifist He chdn t say war was bad He only said—because the liberak
said so—that war l^etwren nations had no importance or mcanii^ at afl.