Five Fallacies Th
ALLEN, DEVERE
Five Fallacies Th By Devere Allen AS everybody knows, traffic in England and certain European countries goes t o t he left instead of ho the right as in the United States. Not...
...It will "restore to the most spiritually creative people on earth that Inward leadership of the world for which the world will one day cry aloud in horror at AngloSaxon mechanization and Russian universal destruction...
...3: That war, horrible as it is, is a cheap price topay for certaiaj benefits...
...This means a new combat between rival nations or social groups on the average of once every five and a half months...
...Major General MacArthur speaks of "A warlike spirit,'which alone can create any civilize a state...
...In the saddle...
...But the student campaign against war has not been subdued by these punitive measures.' It has gained strength and determination...
...Our own Captain Mahan was among the first to expound the philosophy of blood and iron and the extension of capitalist "cult u r e " throughout the world and that philosophy was taken over by the admirals and generals of' the old imperial Germany and of Great Britain who decorated it with some gew{/(lie* if their own, and it became a hading export with steel, textites and other commodities Prof...
...the abolition of the vested interests in war preparation and the establishment of a system of international cooperation for the promotion of the common interests which the peoples of the world now share...
...The reason lies in the personal insecurity of all citizens in a society which permitted practicaUy all citizens to be armed...
...to in-' vestigate textbooks...
...Forty Years' W E" VER since I first entered public life, now nearly forty years ago, I have believed that one of the vital problems of modern civilization was that of international war...
...Girls at the Connecticut College for Women so convinced the administration of their earnest determination to strike that classes have been officially called off...
...Not everyone, however, knows why...
...What of Our War Maniacs...
...War lets loose far too gigantic forces to be dominated by liberal or radical ideas, to which international conflict is an exact antithesis...
...He presents convincing evidence that the whole of Germany is being organized fWr the purposees outlined by Prof, Banse...
...Well, our withers are unwrung...
...At Columbia University some three hundred delegates, representing 3,000 students, took part...
...That is true of the whole world today...
...We fought to make the world safe for democracy, and today democracy, where not extinguished, is everywhere in jeopardy...
...Departmental committees are set up to prevent science faculties from giving their services to the war o f f i c e by the invention of new death-dealing formulae...
...Second a recognition of the need for alliance with the working class in order effectively to prevent war...
...I n s a y i ng this...
...Today all tl Labor Party stand for peace disarmament, l condition than years ago...
...Its philosophy is a logical expansion of the creed of capitalist imperialism no matter what its nationality may be...
...human life was almost incidental...
...There is no defensive war...
...The publication of a n English translation or Ewald Banse's "Germany Prepares for War" (Harcourt, Brace and Co...
...I do not m e a n t h a t the w a r of 1914 was inevitable...
...At Smith...
...A rich man's war and a poor man's fight," said many southern poor whites in our own I Civil War...
...people everywi war can only 1 damage and longer believe t creases the dig of their con proved by nu arbitration is satisfactory in disputes...
...In 1890 we fought to free Cuba, and ended up by acquiring the Philippines...
...Its Manual on Citizenship declares that democracy is "monocracy" which leads to "demagogism, Hcense...
...Informing as the Banse book is, there is the danger of thinking that Nazi Germany is the sole criminal...
...But property was/never safe, and the greater the value of the property, the keener and more numerous the sworda in its defense...
...Our call has met with immediate response...
...It is better for us to die in a fight against this grewnme thing than to become bloody pulp to fertilize the in* tercets of the exploiters...
...These conferences are not merely talk...
...War can, perhaps, be prevented...
...it could have been averted had the nations understood the...
...chapter at the University of Missouri, had been expelled for refusing to take military training...
...Defense...
...The working class of the leading nations are being prepared for war and—for what...
...Rarely was there a need for protecting human life itself...
...Banse's bdok"is supplemented by a much smaller volume by Lelartd Stone <"Nazi Means War" (McGrawH ill Book Co., $1.50) an American journalist who made an extended tour of Germany last year...
...and to recruit faculty members and students for the anti-war movement...
...But there is a spirit abroad on the campuses which is different from that of...
...Looking back4 to the days before 1914, it is plain that t h o s e w ho then worked for peace had against them p o w e r f u 1 forces which they c o u ld hardly h o pe t o overcome...
...The atmosphere is charged with them...
...Fallacy No...
...Just like a tfutcher splitting a hog with a cleaverk Terrible, isn't it...
...No one of us, believes that passage of resolutions in peace-time will keep these fellows from marching off when the war drums fill the streets...
...a new war waj ment of revd throughout thai t r u t h is that • Editors Corner Review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad, Critical and Otherwise By James Oneal A CENTURY hence historians may classify Fascism as capitalism passing through an epileptic fit before it dies...
...Medusa's grin Merely turned a living thing to stone . . . Now I have a smile so terrible, A voice so thunderous, a breath So poisonous, more withering than fire . . . This time...
...HB new deadly forms of makis^ war are here discussed * with the utmost candor and the professor is sure of the outcome for the Nazis...
...You served me thirty million of your youth,, Their zest, their bloody the firmness of their M Still linger sweetly, and each sabre tooth Of mine is picked and clean...
...My lightest sigh will strike you down like flitl T W / S time 1 warn you, I have feasted well...
...It will not be just hatred of the carnage of war that will keep the undergraduate from enlisting, b\jt the vision of a new society, a workers' democracy as presented by Socialism, that will be more seductive...
...This I both among tW voc/te a "wajj League of Natf by gome ingigU mortals fancy...
...Few Socialists ever anticipated that acute economic contradictions in a long period of depression would heave t h e Wioron and the nysfit out of obscurity into,,the seats of power to rule or the banker and capitalist, but this has happened...
...members at the University of California, at City College of New York, at Ohio State and at the University of Maryland...
...From its earliest days the Labor Party has stood against war and against competitive armament...
...Fallacy No...
...I itself a good ( tory and conqu material prw] being...
...Your edifices strutting through the clouds Will crumble at my word...
...And what of Captain Mahan...
...Tb rightly undent they were still imbued with tl war could incra and prestige...
...Not only is it known, t oi students of anthropology that many primitive people never knew what warfare was, but there is a strong body of evidence to indicate that war in its true sense really arose when mankind ceased its nomadic existence, began to till the soil and (rear domestic animals, and commenced the accumulation of wealth...
...they must be reckoned with in any future war emergency...
...Considering the character of modern wars and the hideous forms of slaughter that impend In the next struggle, the masses are justified in organized resistance to them, even to the extent of hurling the bourgeois agents of "culture" out of their seats of power at any moment favorable to such action...
...It is a slow groping through to fundamentals—the beginning of an understanding of the relationship of capitalism to war...
...In the last 119 yearsejthe period which coincides with the life of the organized peace movement that has so uniformly refused to seek fundamental economic changes, the world has experienced nine wars of enormous magnitude, 55 major conflicts, and no fewer than 275 outbreaks of hostilities involving destruction of life and treasure on a substantial scale...
...But What of our own War Department and its "educational" activities...
...1: That War ia a relic of barbarism...
...We refuse a shudder when Prof...
...I am prepared With waking appetite and widened girth To be a glutton, and upon my fill There will be nothing left upon the earth...
...Yet these were as child's play in comparison to the conflicts of more recent periods...
...a text-book of German Nazi militarism, has shocked some people in England and the United States...
...These resolutions are a sign of how Socialist sentiment is slowly permeating broad group of students through the medium, of the fight against war...
...this time we are taking the sword in both hands and smiting him [the enemy] hip and thigh fWt we split him in two from top to bottom...
...Germany being most acutely affected by the collapse of capitalism, naturally has produced the lowest type of moron .He drives the class struggle underground and then drivels of a "united nation...
...Low skies Of jet will funnel from my frown...
...Banse is probably a little more frank and a little more stupid than others, but that is to be expected in a regime ruled by morons...
...Wood row Wilson, most clearly of all, stands as a bad example of this treacherous sentiment...
...Fallacy No...
...it eon never be controlled...
...He discusses the Science of human slaughter In terms of geography, science, economics, race, psychology and the goosestep of conscripts, surveying the geography end the military equipment of other leading nations, and looks forward to a holy war of the Nazis...
...2: That war can be controlled for liberal or radical social ends...
...He asserts that the internationalist "is a bastard in blood and a eunuch in intellect" and that after fourteen years the German "sword will come into i t s own again...
...When Banse was an Infant, Mahan wrote: *Tke great task now before the world of civilized Christianity, its great mission, which it must fulfill or perish, is to receive into its bosom and raise to its own ideals those ancient and different civilizations by which it is surrounded and outnumbered...
...This time yon will not sit and feel secure Within your mansions, superintending hell • • 7 hie time, I'll hurl you into open space And mix you into bleeding clay, at well...
...Third, a condemnation of the New Deal in So far as it has been diverted into building up the war machine...
...From its earliest days it has demanded the removal of the causes of war...
...The Issue Facing Workers * ' "cultural" weapons of Nazi Germany, but scientists in the laboratories of the powers opposed to Germany are equalrjr alert in preparing these deadly forms of destruction, Two years ago, the Chemical Workers' Union of Great Britain published a pamphlet, "The Menace of Chemical Warfare to Civilian Populations," informing readers of what the imperialist powers are preparing for in the next war...
...my lungs will blow A wind to scorch and strip your empires bare...
...agitation, discontent, anarchy...
...T'HIS.time I warn you, masters, governors * Who sit in halls of power and play at chest With peoples for your pieces, I will blast Your bright importance into emptiness...
...War is not a relic of barbarism but tke fruit <>f capitalist civilization...
...No war has ever been inevitable, and no war ever will be...
...Students Unite To Battle War By Joseph P. Lath Editor, The Student Outlook...
...He takes the youth of the nation .closes its mind to knowledge, and prepares it for the butcher pits of another war...
...Any war of the powers means a struggle in the interest of their respective ruling classes...
...To be sure, in feudal times and in the days of primitive tribal societies, conflicts took place, sometimes bloody and devastating...
...But the tion was in itt successes hadb habit of recoun of grave impoi formed among the world...
...We fought to crush German militarism, and German militarism is once more...
...never learn...
...War has been growing steadily more suicidal and wars have been fought with increasing lawlessness and frequency...
...Fraternity men, liberals, Socialists and Communists work out a program of action on the campus as well as an analysis of the more fundamental causes of war...
...Few remainders of by-gone days better symbolize the present social •order...
...The moral is plain...
...Eugene Pingo's expulsion is only one incident in a far-flung fight against war on the campus front, which ha* taken its toll of L.I.D...
...Five of these fallacies were largely responsible for the support given by American youth to the World War...
...THIS time I warn you all, the great, the t»A * Old ones and the young, I will not sport The least of you...
...I t is not true, as many people honestly suppose, that wars have been growing less frequent and destructive, apd that armed combat has been gradually succumbing to rules and humane regulations which give hope that law will triumph over force...
...Socialist ideas and ideals have been broadcast through the world...
...April 6-13 has been declared Student Anti-War Week by the Student League* for Industrial Democracy and the National Student League...
...At Johns Hopkins, New York University, ' at Hunter College, C.C.N.Y., Brooklyn, and in several high schools anti-war conferences have been held...
...IS there any difference between Banse's Nazi union of all Germanic peoples and world dominion and Mahan's AngloAmerican Union as an "oasis set in the midst of a desert of barbarism...
...First a refusal to participate in any war our government may undertake...
...The maintain are i considerations c belief, almost of intervention for this fear, would care to which existing This Time I By Somuel T P / / / S time I warn you, bring a burnished ihim . If you would see my face...
...But the work of e d u c a t i on against war must go on now on the basis of fighting the war machine on the campus...
...ON March 22nd we received word that a student Socialist, member of the Student L.I.D...
...With eyes alont You dare not gaze at me...
...The truth is quite to the contrary...
...We have inherited from the past not merely a sentimental, romantic conception of war, but a series of customs and sayings which deceive the minds of millions and render the masses susceptible to the appeals of warmaking governments and propagandists...
...War could have been averted in 1914 by arbitration...
...Riding through the countryside on horseback, your British "man" or "gentleman" had to have his sword-arm free for action...
...The resolutions adopted by these conferences are still more striking, since it is not a radical minority that accepts them but the whole conference...
...1914...
...On April 13th, from 11 a. m. to 12 noon, we have called for a national student anti-war strike...
...College, 200 delegates from more than a dozen Connecticut Valley colleges assembled to draw up a program for the struggle against war...
...if they had be the terrible n»| in which they gage...
...Nothing will avail to stop modern war that does not come to grips with the underlying economic realities of our warbreeding social system...
...During the past few months a host of anti-war conferences have been held in the various colleges...
...I am more powerfid than Death...
Vol. 17 • April 1934 • No. 14
