The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-20
By LEVERNE HAMILTON
PANACEAS

With a favorable outlook for an
earlier conclusion of World War Mum
Der Two, the Capitalist Utter" which
up to the present has been Of the
spasmodic or intermittent type has
begun to take on the aspect of per.
ennial and permanent shake" Sol
diers of the Allied armies have been
scoring victories which, according to
capitalist expectations, they had no
business to, score thus giving the CAPT
talist applicant a terrific Jolt and
stimulating a sudden "scurrying to
and fro on the part of capitalist lead
ership, without however any signal
accomplishments becoming apparent.
Russia instead of being only the
recipient of the "Schicklegruber
punches" as capitalist prognastica-
tors had expected land possibly
hoped has stepped to the center of
the ring and exhibited a surprising
Ito capitalists) ability to throw a
few haymakers" of her own Capt.
talist prognosicators are still marvel
ing at the fighting ability. and incen-
tive of the Red army (Which has APP
parently been making an even better
showing comparatively than the arm
les of the Allied nations) but to the
student of world economic conditions
the explanation is simple and reason
ably clear. Russia, of all the Allied
nations has the strongest reason for
an early conclusion of the war, for
she is the only nation whose leader
ship, as well as the people, has
concrete, definitely planned postwar
program, and consequently her leader
ship and her people are definitely
united in a consuming desire to get
the disagreeable war job quickly and
efficiently done so that they may pro-
coed with their economic plans.
By comparison the activities of
leadership of the capitalist nations is
almost puerile and consists largely of
attempts to "sell" the war to the
working classes of the various coun-
tries To the student of economic
conditions capitalist leadership gives
every indication of desire to pro-
long the war Indefinitely and again
the reason for such an attitude is
equally clear; capitalist leadership
has as yet no plan for the post war
period which will enable capitalists
to retain their hold on the economic
structure of the world, and until they
can formulate and perfect such plan
they are perfectly willing that the
war should continue for they feel that
for the duration at least their "some-
thing-for-nothing profit system is
safe"
To the dismay of capitalist leaders |
however, the soldiers of the American
and English armies just don't seem |
to feel that way about the subject. |
They too realize that they have dis
agreeable job to do and while they |
have little faith in the glittering gen
eralities and profuse promises of cap
italist leaders, they are nevertheless
anxious to get the job done with the
utmost possible dispatch so that they
can begin the job of cleaning the
Augean Stables at home. With this
thought squirting them on and with
little thought of glory their activities
in Africa, Sicily and Italy have so
changed the aspect of the war as to
throw capitalist leadership into per-
petual "dither" On receipt of favor
able reports from the war zone the
stock market went into a sudden de-
cline Ga sad commentary on capital
ist civilization" CD when news in
an earlier conclusion of war
sends the stock market into a re-