Western Clarion
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issued: 2016-07-19
issued: 1923-04-16
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note: A Journal of CURRENT EVENTS Official Organ of THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA HISTORY ECONOMICS PHILOSOPHY No. 889. NINETEENTH YEAR. Twice a Month VANCOUVER, B. C, APRIL 16, 1923. FIVE CENTS The International Situation The Concentration and Trustification of Capital IF I am to sum up the results of my recent observations of foreign affairs, I must first say, speaking generally, that the most important feature of our period is the concentration and trustification of capital on an international scale. In some countries the process of concentration was already greatly advanced. Now we find, behind the scenes of events, a constant motive force consisting of a struggle towards the international alliance of the national trusts, towards the international extension of national trusts and their growth beyond national frontiers. This process of international concentration of capital, is being carried out Avithin the post-war crisis and collapse. Consequently, it frequently assumes degenerated forms, and its gradual progress is accompanied by many morbid symptoms. The ruined and petty bourgeoisie, and the increasingly impoverished bourgeois, intelligentzia plunge into the extremist chauvinism, and create a heated political atmosphere. In Prance these elements support Avhat is left of the National Bloc; in Germany they join the Orgesh organizations or simply vote for the extreme right! in Italy they form one of the motive poAvers for the complicated phenomenon of Pascismo. Their furious activity keeps Avar ever near, and within certain limits, even leads to direct military action. But there is no immediate danger of a new world Avar: Tbe motive forces of a Avorld war can only be fundamental antagonisms between leading economic groups, and theses last have still to undergo a long period of development beforeIheir relations become so acute as to provide the possible conditions for a world Avar. Before the Avar the situation Avas different; at that time, large industry supported mil…
note: Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.2611110
long: -123.1138890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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