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[Jochen Stremmel]

»Es handelt sich in diesem Krieg –«
»Jawohl, es handelt sich in diesem Krieg!«

Karl Kraus, 1915

Am Di., 7. Apr. 2020 um 23:29 Uhr schrieb Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>:

>  > "Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future
> > catastrophe. "
>
> “Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering
> and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.
> The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as
> spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw
> material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught
> History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared
> for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulous to just ordinary
> folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're
> still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:54 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Even the neoliberal war machine predicted the pandemic.
> >
> > https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1247133215233576960?s=20
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:35 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
> > thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > "Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future
> > > catastrophe. "
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism/
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