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book "The Economic Consequence of the Peace'.1 Individual profit which in the 18th and 19th centuries provided the motive force of the economic system, has failed us and we have not discovered any moral for it rather than war.2 Mr. Keynes adds “Pyramid-building, earthquakes even wars may serve to increase wealth."3 During great U. S. economic crisis Governer Lafolette however charged those who had squandered 40,000,000,000 dollar of American money in the most wasteful and futile war of modern history and were not prepared
te money for public works to relieve distress. The Economic Digest confirms this waste today, when it published that U. S. spends 16 million dollars a month on U. S. forces in U. K.5
So somehow people think that if economies be reconstucted it can bring peace. So economies means political economies and political philosophy. And with this comes the perenial conflict of political ideologies. The free-world must adhere to Marshall and Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution, while the Reds find salvation in no other economic structure other than the Marxian, because the Capital is not a personal, it is a social power.6 So again, ultimately it is our warring ideologies that are at the root of world tension. So whether we philosophize or we won't, we are to be philosophized.?
1. J. M. Keynes : Economic Consequence of Peace. 2. E. H. Carr : Conditions for Peace, p. 101. 3. J. M. Keynes : The General Theory of Employment,
Interest and Money, p. 129. 4. D. W. Brogan : The American Political System, p. 132. 5. Economic Digest : Artical “Spending by U.S. Forces in
Britain,” May, 1953. 6. Mark Engles : Communist Manifesto, Vol. I, p. 45. 7. Aristotle : Quoted from "Introduction to Philosophy” by
G. W. Patrick, p. 49.
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