Rat i kapitalizam

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Topik o ulozi rata za prvobitnu i svaku kasniju akumulaciju kapitala.

 

U ratovima najbolje prolaze proizvođači i trgovci oružjem, banke kreditori, crnoberzijanci, političari i njihove porodice, dok heroji ginu ili nestaju na Albanskim planinama, Solunskom frontu i ostalim Krfovima.

 

Kejs in point, Japan i Nemačka u 2SR, napljačkali se samo tako, tako da je posleratni bum bio upravo tamo. S tim sto su Nemci naučili poruku iz prvog rata pa prebacili pare u Švicu i podelili sa Amerima.

 

Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and hidden in caves, tunnels, underground complexes, or just underground in the Philippines. It is named after the Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, nicknamed "The Tiger of Malaya".

 

Prominent among those who have argued for the existence of Yamashita's gold are Sterling Seagrave and his wife Peggy Seagrave, who wrote two books related to the subject: The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family (2000) and Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold (2003). The Seagraves contend that looting was organized on a massive scale, by both yakuza gangsters such as Yoshio Kodama, and the highest levels of Japanese society, including Emperor Hirohito. The looting included the sack of the Chinese capital Nanking in 1937, when Japan took 6,600 tons of gold[1].

 

 

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/1867-gold-warriors

 

A decades long propaganda campaign had served to focus public attention on the gold stolen from governments – known as monetary gold – as a means of eclipsing from public view far larger amounts of privately held gold that was also stolen.

 

The heavy cloak of disinformation and double-talk had still another layer. By putting the spotlight on Nazi plunder from the very beginning, public attention was diverted away from the industrial scale looting undertaken by Japan’s special plunder teams known as the “Golden Lily.” And it is here that the real story dwells

 

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Spoils_of_War

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All right, forget it. I'll reroute the shipment to the Balkans. When they say they're going to have a war, they keep their word!

 

 

 

 

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

 

In War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering.

The work is divided into five chapters:

1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!

It contains this summary:

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

Butler confesses that during his decades of service in the United States Marine Corps:

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909–1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.