Hellraisers Journal: Eugene Debs: "Socialism stands for peace, the peace that comes with justice."
The Peace that comes with Justice
And is crowned with Honor.
-Eugene Victor Debs
Saturday May 6, 1916
Comrade Debs: "Peace With Honor a Fraudulent and Hypocritical Phrase
From the Texas Corsicana Daily Sun of May 4, 1916:
Of all the phrases inspired as weak, silly apologies for war the one "peace with honor" is the most fraudulent and hypocritical and for this reason the hack politicians' prime favorite. There is not a pharisee of high or low degree in the whole bourgeois aggregation of patriots who has the courage and honesty to tell the truth and to announce boldly and unequivocally that he stands for war. The swashbucklers find it necessary to qualify their preference for war to peace, and "THE HONOR OF THE NATION" INVARIABLY FIGURES IN THEIR HYPOCRITICAL PLEAS AND FALSE PRETENSES.
What a ghastly lie and unmitigated hypocrisy! The peace they favor with honor is pure invention forced upon them by necessity.
SOCIALISM STANDS FOR PEACE, THE PEACE THAT COMES WITH JUSTICE AND IS CROWNED WITH HONOR.
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SOURCE & IMAGES
The Corsicana Daily Sun
(Corsicana, Texas)
-May 4, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/51421499/
Comments
Never Squad Down!
Never surrender. The working man has always been at war with the Robber Barons:
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/federalist10.html
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Never surrender!
As a student of history, I tell you that revolutionaries who surrender are not treated well. It's better to die with your boots on, so to speak.
Besides, regardless of how this election goes, and I fervently hope it goes our way, we can still work for Brand New Congress.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
boy, ain't that the truth. Grim evidence with the
executions of the Irish Rebels, and more to come later this week.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
thank you for the link, Meteor Man. n/t
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Right on, Eugene! TY, as always JaeRae. War is a money-maker
for elites and another tax on the poor. And here at home, we socialists stand for: No Justice, No Peace.
Have a good day, my friend,
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Yep, War is Wonderful for Billionaire arms dealers.
Not so much for the rest of us who have to pay both in dollars and in the blood of our children and grandchildren.
thx for stopping by, Gerritt.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Here here EVB!! Well said!! Thanks JayRaye!! n/t