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WAR—WHAT FOR?
CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION:
Ready.
An Insult from the Commander=in=Chief:
CHAPTER ONE. A Confidential Word With the Man of the Working Class.
CHAPTER TWO. What Is War?
CHAPTER THREE. The Situation—Also the Explanation.
Capitalists—“Captains of Industry”—“Leading Citizens”:—
Statesmen—Politicians—“Leading Citizens”:—
Working Class Brothers—Off for the Front—To Kill “the Enemy,” Their Working Class Brothers:
THE EXPLANATION.[10]
(A)—Capitalists want war—because—
(B)—The politicians declare war:
(C)—The working men fight the war:
CHAPTER FOUR. The Cost of War—In Blood and In Cash.
SECTION I: THE COST IN BLOOD.
SECTION II: THE COST IN CASH.
CHAPTER FIVE. Hell.
Section one: Modern murdering machinery.
Section two: The silent destroyer—disease.
Section three: Peaceful slaughter—in industry.
CHAPTER SIX. Tricked to the Trenches—Then Snubbed.
First Illustration: The English in the Napoleonic Wars, and in the Boer War.
Second Illustration: The American Working Class Revolutionists:
Third Illustration: The American Civil War—The Bankers and “Promoters”—and the Boys in Blue:
Fourth Illustration: The Seven Days’ Battle—The “Brainy” Promoters and the Boys in Blue:
Fifth Illustration: “Freeing Cuba”—“Remembering the Maine.”
Sixth Illustration: Standing at attention for civilized cannibals:
Seventh Illustration: The American Cossack.[174]
A Workingman’s Meditations: “We Appreciate It.”
A special warning to the working class of the United States:
CHAPTER SEVEN. For Father and the Boys.
CHAPTER EIGHT. For Mother and the Boys and Girls.
CHAPTER NINE. The Cross, the Cannon, and the Cash-Register.
CHAPTER TEN. Now What Shall We Do About It?
The Plan of Rational Mutualism:
CHAPTER ELEVEN. A Short Lesson in the History of the Working Class.
CHAPTER TWELVE. More Suggestions and What to Read.
INDEX.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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