The Masses
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===Vol. 9 No. 8=== | ===Vol. 9 No. 8=== | ||
| − | '''Advertising Democracy''' | + | '''Advertising Democracy''' by Max Eastman |
''"It is not a war for democracy. It did not originate in a dispute about democracy, and it is unlikely to terminate in a democratic settlement."'' | ''"It is not a war for democracy. It did not originate in a dispute about democracy, and it is unlikely to terminate in a democratic settlement."'' | ||
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| + | The Masses held a very critical view of U.S. involvement of the war. Eastman holds the U.S. accountable for conscription, which he feels strips away the very democratic essence of U.S. involvement: | ||
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| + | ''"If you can not raise in our population a volunteer army of one million men for this war, then the American democracy does not want this war; and to call it a democratic war, or a war for democracy, while you whip them to it, is an insult in their faces."'' | ||
==Conclusion== | ==Conclusion== | ||
