[lbo-talk] Anatole France on WWI

[Marv Gandall]

On the occasion of the past weekend celebrations marking the centenary of the end of WWI - a senseless slaughter of tens of millions on behalf of rival imperialist powers, annually memorialized as a “sacrifice” - my second favourite quote from Anatole France: “You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.”

My favourite from the great French novelist and radical socialist (1844-1924): “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”