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Preface | 5 |
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Ready | 9 |
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An Insult from the Commander-in-Chief | 10 |
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Chapter One: A Confidential Word with the Man of the Working Class | 11 |
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Chapter Two: What Is War? | 21 |
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Chapter Three: The Situation—Also the Explanation | 29 |
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Chapter Four: The Cost of War—(1) In Blood, (2) In Cash | 47 |
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Chapter Five: Hell | 77 |
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Chapter Six: Tricked to the Trenches—Then Snubbed | 107 |
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Chapter Seven: For Father and the Boys | 159 |
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Chapter Eight: For Mother and the Boys—and Girls | 207 |
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Chapter Nine: The Cross, the Cannon, and the Cash Register | 244 |
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Chapter Ten: Now What Shall We Do About It? | 273 |
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Chapter Eleven: A Short Lesson in the History of the Working Class | 317 |
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Chapter Twelve: Suggestions—and What to Read | 338 |
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| Industrial Despotism, Craftily Called Freedom | Frontispiece |
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| Leading Citizens—“We Want Wars” | 31 |
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| Leading Citizens—“We Declare Wars” | 33 |
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| Citizens Who Are Led—“We Fight the Wars” | 35 |
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| Hired Hands | Facing p. 46 |
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| Worn-Out Boxing Gloves of the Ruling Class | 51 |
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| The History of Ignorance and Meekness | 53 |
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| The War Is the Class War | 169 |
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| The Beneficiaries of Hell, Flirting with Heaven | Facing p. 206 |
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| The Noble RÔle of Cossacks and Militiamen | Facing p. 207 |
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| Preparing Boy-Scout Hired Hands | Facing p. 220 |
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| Four Victims of Cheap Patriotism | 241 |
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| In My Name! After Nineteen Hundred Years! | 245 |