Montage: Aleksandr Zhitomirsky - Casino-Pentagon
"Yes, a world war is inevitable, if a revolution does not forestall it. The inevitability of the war flows, first, from the incurable crisis of the capitalist system; secondly, from the fact that the present partition of our planet, that is to say above all, of the colonies, no longer corresponds to the economic specific weight of the imperialist states. Looking for an escape out of the mortal crisis the parvenu states aspire, and cannot fail to aspire, to new partitioning of the world. Only children at the breast and professional 'pacifists' to whom even the experience of the unfortunate League of Nations has taught nothing, can suppose that a more 'equitable' repartition of the territorial surface can be realized around the green tables of democracy. ... Capitalism is condemned. Nothing will save it from collapse. The more resolute and audacious will be the policy of the proletariat the less the socialist revolution will provoke sacrifice, the sooner mankind will enter upon a new road."
Leon Trotsky, interviewed by London Daily Herald in March 1939, via @astrolib
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