Marxism Unmasked from Delusion to Destruction.pdf 7471KB

characters, Karl Marx and Georges Sorcl, who created all this mischief.
Most of the violent ideas of our times ha\T come fiom men who
themselves wouldn't have been able to resist am- aggression.
Wilson accepted the doctrine of the Manchester Liberals, namely
that so far as war was concerned, democraaes don't like to fight wan;
democracies fight only W2n of defense because the indnndual citizen
cannot expect any improvement of his condioons fiom u-ar, not e\Tn it" his
country is victorious. But Wilson didn't see that this ^^•3& true onK' m a
world of free trade. He didn't see that this \%-as quite differmt alread\- m the
age in which he lived, which was an age of inier\mtK>ni$m. He didnt
realize that an enormous change in economic policies had dcpriwd chn
theory of the Manchester Liberals of its practicabilirv' Trade bamcn were
comparatively innocent in 1914. But thc>- %%"rTr Nrry much >*T>rscned
during the years of the League of Natiom While fire traders urrr meeting
with the League in (iene\-a and talking about rrducing trade bamen«
people at home were increasing them In 1^33. there wx% a meeting in
London to bring about cooperation among the nabons. And pircncK' at
this time the richest countrv. the United Statri. nulUfied the whole thing
with moiictan, and financial regubtiom Afier ihtt the \% hole apparatus vkrai
absolutely useless.
Kicardo's theorv- of comparator advantage ts thai it n to the ad\'anU|ce
to a nation to ha\r fire trade e\m if all tHher naciont cbng co thetr tnde
barriers. If the United Stales alone tixia\ adopted fire trade thefr would
be certain thange^ But it all i>ther lountrio clung to pnHevtKHitsm ^ith
import barriers, it would not be possible for the United Suirt to buy more
got>ds fnim other countno
There are isoUtioiitsts mn onlv in this country; thctr air aho
isolationists in other countries lmpi>rts rmni be paid Hh b>' exports
and cxpt>rts hasr !U> t>thcr purpme than to pj\ lot import% Thus the
cst-iNishmcnt i>f free trade b\ the ruhest ami iik>m p*w*rTtul nation only
would not change the situation lor the Italurn. tor imtaiu e. if the\' rrtained
their trade barriers It \s\>uld n*>t nuke am ditietrme t«>r other counfnct
either. It is advantageous for jnv countrv to ha\T trre trade e\m if aO
other ci>untries do not. but the pn>hlem is to rrnKnr the barriers ol'thr
other n>untrics
Ihe term "s*Hulisin." when it was nes% in the second part of ihc
I8.^(K. meant cxacilv the same as "communiun"—i e.. the rutionaliration
ot the means t>f pHxhution "Communism" was the more popular term in