Book: Remembering the war in Spain

But the laws of nature are unalterable, and for the "red" army, and "white". Lice is lice, but bombs are bombs, even though you fight for the fairest thing in the world.

As for the masses, their opinions, extremely fast-changing in our days, their feelings that can be controlled like a stream of water from the tap, - all this the result of hypnotic suggestions of the radio and television.

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. Meanwhile, the truth is quite simple. To survive, we must fight, and when fighting, can not make oneself dirty with mud. War is evil, but often the lesser of two evils. Take the sword and perish by the sword, and not having taken the sword perish from heinous diseases. The fact that it is necessary to remind of such platitudes, eloquently, how far we've come over the years of parasitic capitalism.

Calling the names of people who support fascism or rendered him their services, one is struck by how dissimilar they are. What a conglomerate! Name me any political platform that would serve to unite such adherents, like Hitler, Petain, Montagu Norman, Pavelic, William Randolph Hearst, Streicher would, Buchman, Ezra pound, Juan March, Cocteau, Thyssen, father Coughlin, the mufti of Jerusalem, Arnold Lunn, Antonescu, Spengler, Beverley Nichols, lady Houston, and Marinetti, prompting all of them to sit in the same boat! But in fact, it is easy to explain. All of those who have something to lose, or dreamers of hierarchical society, who dread of the thought of a world where people will be free and equal. For all the loud rhetoric about "godless" Russia and vulgar "materialism" that distinguishes the proletariat, is a simple desire of people with money and privileges to keep them owned.

And the audacity with which these politicians, clergymen, writers and other lecture work, a socialist, Cora his "materialism"! But working for yourself requires nothing more that these teachers consider to be vitally necessary. The house was food to get rid of the oppressive fear of unemployment, not to doubt the future of the children, to once a day to take a bath and to bed linen changed as expected, and the roof does not leak and the job is not robbed all the time, leaving at least some energy when the whistle blows on the end of it. None of denouncing "materialism" does not think without it normal life. And how easy it would be to reach such a minimum, we strive for this purpose at least twenty years! The whole world has achieved the level of life of England - this would cost no more than those which require the current war.

As the right work in his "materialism"! How right they are, considering that you first need to eat, and then to petition for the soul, implying just the order of actions, not values!

The truth begins to be perceived as false if it comes from the enemy.