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David Hart on the (so-called) ‘Great War’

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My original plan was to include this link [2] in today’s Some Links [3].  I changed my mind.  This contribution by my talented friend David Hart, of Liberty Fund, is so important that it deserves its own separate post [2].  Exactly 100 years ago the governments of Europe were just days away from declaring what we now call ‘World War I.’

Slaughtering people, including the innocent: now that’s an activity that governments perform with astonishing efficiency, dispatch, creativity, and cold-bloodedness.  Governments are also pretty good at glorifying their murderous rampages.  They build monuments to the genocides they commit and ‘teach’ school children how glorious and honorable those blood-soaked events were.

And capitalism, all the while, is falsely accused – especially by those who are inspired by centralized state power – of coarsening human existence.  How bizarrely backwards.

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