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    Re: Letter in Morning Star: $1 billion transferred from weapons to welfare Archived Message

    Posted by spike on April 3, 2021, 7:58 am, in reply to "Re: Letter in Morning Star: $1 billion transferred from weapons to welfare"

    Agreed. It's corporate welfare for the arms indistry

    'The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives,
    but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces,
    or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea,
    materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable,
    and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are
    not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of
    expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed.
    A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that
    would build several hundred cargo-ships. Ultimately it is scrapped as
    obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with
    further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built.'

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