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Excerpt from Peace Problems Russia's Economics
The task is difficult, and can but prove long; for not only towns and villages have been destroyed, but institutions which were the very foundations of states, and the social, and economic relations Of nations. All this has to be created anew. How Shall it be done? The future welfare of the world hangs on the solution Of this problem. Are the nations ready for this great recreative work? Are the statesmen, the national leaders, and international public Opinion ready?
Lofty watchwords have been proclaimed: The League of Nations - based on Justice and Law, instead Of The Balance of Power in Europe - based on armed force.
Brotherhood and peaceful collaboration Of nations in the field Of culture, instead of rivalry, malice and mutual distrust.
Freedom and full rights for small nations, instead of oppression and absorption Of the weak by the strong, Collaboration, and the subordination of the interests of separate classes to those of the whole nation, instead of the struggle for power between the classes.
When, and by whom was the last watchword pro claimed, the reader may ask, the watchword of the solidarity of the various classes? IS that (if any importance?
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