After a career pillaging for US corporate interests abroad, he realized he was being used, and presented his "pamphlet" to the US legislature, and toured giving anti-war speeches.
War _is_ a racket!!!
The fact that we're still dismembering and incinerating each other, to decide which rich asshat gets the goods, is the primary indicator that humans are still a primitive primate species...
- The Business Plot: Smedley D. Butler, Anti-Democratic Dissidence, and the Recession of the American Right 1932-1936 by Grant Stone 2021 [pdf] https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3259?v=pdf
luckyobserver|1 day ago
"At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. military history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
johnea|16 hours ago
He has been a long time hero of mine.
After a career pillaging for US corporate interests abroad, he realized he was being used, and presented his "pamphlet" to the US legislature, and toured giving anti-war speeches.
War _is_ a racket!!!
The fact that we're still dismembering and incinerating each other, to decide which rich asshat gets the goods, is the primary indicator that humans are still a primitive primate species...
burnt-resistor|1 day ago
See also:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
- The Business Plot: Smedley D. Butler, Anti-Democratic Dissidence, and the Recession of the American Right 1932-1936 by Grant Stone 2021 [pdf] https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3259?v=pdf
- (Another article about the Business Plot.. rich people who desired fascism in America) https://connecticuthistory.org/gerald-macguire-and-the-plot-...