This pamphlet, Scott Nearing's The Great Madness, was written ninety years ago as America was about to enter WWI. It could have been written yesterday. The plutocracy he describes, the use of a crisis and a claim of the need for national defense to galvanize public opinion in favor of big business as a salvation--my God, where have we heard that before?
Of course he was prosecuted for the pamphlet--which wouldn't happen today, right?
Here is his closing argument in defense of the charge of violating the Espionage Act
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