Is it possible that a few rich men a small class of men
have persuaded a million poor men to attack and attempt to destroy
another million men as poor as they, so that the rich may be richer
still?
They told them that this brutal war was the destiny of the race. It
was for the glory of the emperor; it was for the honour of the
state; it was for their king and country. False - false as hell!
They make war to capture markets by murder, raw materials by rape.
They find it cheaper to steal than to exchange, easier to butcher
than to buy. This is the secret of war. It is the secret of all
wars: profit.
Business. Profit. Blood money.
Threaten a reduction on the profit of their money, and the beast in
them awakens with a snarl. They become as ruthless as savages,
brutal as madmen, remorseless as executioners.
~ Dr. Norman Bethune, 1939, from his essa
