\author{Jean Ziegler, 1998 \and Translated by Based BBOC Anon \and Typeset by \LaTeX\,Anon}
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\chapter{Foreword}
\chapterauthor{Gilles PERRAULT}
Blessed capitalism! It announces nothing and never promises.
No manifesto or twenty-point declaration programming the
turnkey happiness. He crushes you, guts you, enslaves you, torments you — in short, does it disappoints you? You have the right to be unhappy but not not disappointed, because disappointment presupposes a betrayed commitment.
@ -71,6 +76,8 @@ Gilles Perrault
\section{THE TOTALITARIAN LIBERALISM}
\chapterauthor{Maurice CURY}
The world dominated by capitalism is the free world, capitalism, which is now called only liberalism, is the modern world.
It is the only model of society, if not ideal, at least satisfactory. There is and will never be another.
This is the unanimous song sung not only by economic leaders and most politicians,
@ -178,7 +185,7 @@ the killing of Turkish trade unionists; your indignation was somewhat selective,
I did not see you indignant when communists or simply those who wanted to give power to the people or defend the poor were killed.
For your complicity or silence, I do not hear you asking for forgiveness.
\section{Maurice Cury}
\rauthor{Maurice Cury}
Maurice Cury is a poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and television, radio and theatrical author. Latest publications: \emph{Les orgues de Flandres} (The Organs of Flanders) (novel),
\emph{La Jungle et le désert} (The Jungle and the Desert) (poems and texts) E. C. Éditions, \emph{Le Libéralisme totalitaire}.
@ -188,7 +195,9 @@ President of the Permanent Council of Writers, Vice-President of the National Un
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\chapter{Capitalism's origin}
\chapter{Capitalism's origin (15th-19th century)}
\chapterauthor{Jean Suret-Canale}
It was during the nineteenth century that capitalism, based on wage labour, became the dominant mode of production, first in
Western Europe and the United States, then subordinating the whole world, by either indirect or direct forms of domination (colonization).
@ -673,7 +682,7 @@ These practices, contemporary \enquote{liberalism} has extended them to tens of
Thus came to the world the triumphant Capital, \enquote{sweating blood and mud through all pores}\footnote{Karl Marx, \emph{op. cit.}, p. 202}.
\section{Jean Suret-Canale}
\rauthor{Jean Suret-Canale}
Jean Suret-Canale, volunteer veteran of the Resistance, interned resistance fighter, clandestine militant of the communist youth from 1939 to 1944,
former member of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party, is an honorary lecturer at the University of Paris VII.
@ -681,6 +690,8 @@ A geographer and historian, he is the author of a dozen books on black Africa an
\chapter[Servile economy and capitalism]{Servile economy and capitalism: a quantifiable overview}
\chapterauthor{Philippe PARAIRE}
In his 118th Persian Letter, Montesquieu noted in 1721 that Africa's coasts
\enquote{must have been furiously stripped for two hundred years that little kings or village chiefs sell their subjects to the princes of Europe to carry them to their colonies in America}.
In a later work, \emph{L'Esprit des Lois} (1748), he ironize on the laziness of the peoples of Europe:
@ -876,7 +887,7 @@ it must be said and not afraid to repeat oneself: a set of indisputable facts sh
It took off on a mass grave as history, which was already bloody, had never seen before: twenty million Amerindians exterminated in three centuries, and twelve million Africans killed on the job at the same time.
Two entire continents sacrificed to establish a criminal system without morals and without any law other than that of profit. More than thirty million human beings murdered by capitalism, in a direct and unquestionable way.
\section{Philippe Paraire}
\rauthor{Philippe Paraire}
Author of \emph{Les Noirs Américains, généalogie d'une exclusion}, coll. \enquote{Pluriel intervention}, Hachette, 1993.
@ -898,6 +909,8 @@ Partick Manning, \emph{Slavery and African Life}, Cambridge University Press, Ne
\chapter{Shoot, they're just proles.}
\chapterauthor{Roger BORDIER}
In the days and months following the storming of the Bastille, particularly in August, a very lively workers' agitation, more important and resolute than one might perhaps imagine two centuries later,
shook various corporations and in sometimes confused features, certainly, began to draw the true face of a modern class struggle.
Already in April, a riot directed against the manufacture of the prestigious paper manufacturer Jean-Baptiste Réveillon had clearly shown that in a certain Parisian population, where destitution faced opulence, tension was running high.
@ -1057,12 +1070,14 @@ They were used for others on May 1, then there were other rifles, other men behi
The radical Clemenceau before the war of 1914-18, the socialist Jules Moch after the war of 1939-45 were repressive. But should we list? There were deaths in Le Havre in the twenties, in Paris on February 9, 1934 among anti-fascist militants, however.
Reminders have something mind-blowing, in the long run. Let's not insist? Maybe. But let us also lose nothing of the tragic thrill that resonates in our memories an echo of ancestral hatred: Shoot, they are only workers.
\section{Roger Bordier}
\rauthor{Roger Bordier}
Roger Bordier is a novelist and essayist. Among his titles: \emph{Les blés}, Prix Renaudot, \emph{Un âge d'or, le Tour de ville, Meeting, La Grande vie, La Belle de mai}. Last publication: \emph{Chronique de la cité joyeuse}, (Albin Michel, 1996).
\chapter[1744-1849, A Lyon's century]{1744-1849, A Lyon's century: The canuts against profit's cannibalism}
\chapterauthor{Maurice MOISSONNIER}
Very early, Lyon, in the sixteenth century, began to become a center working with precious fabrics exported throughout Europe, then to the New World,
thanks to a developed banking and commercial apparatus, initiated in the Renaissance by transalpine money handlers.
@ -1505,12 +1520,14 @@ All associated with 81 street names bearing the names of saints.
The street signs celebrate order, finally restored by iron and blood in the city of wonderful silks.
\section{Maurice Moissonnier}
\rauthor{Maurice Moissonnier}
Maurice Moissonnier is an historian.
\chapter{1871: Class Betrayal and Bloody Week}
\chapterauthor{Claude WILLARD}
First milestone: the bankruptcy of the political and military leadership teams.
On July 19, 1870, the Second Empire, \enquote{with a light heart}, declared war on Prussia, a heart all the lighter because, according to the Minister of War, the army \enquote{did not lack a single gaiter button}.
Six weeks later, Napoleon III capitulated pitifully at Sedan and, on September 4, the Republic was proclaimed.
@ -1624,12 +1641,14 @@ Qu’la Commune n’est pas morte!}
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\section{Claude Willard}
\rauthor{Claude Willard}
Claude Willard is a historian, professor emeritus of the University of Paris VIII and president of the association of friends of the Commune.
\chapter{Union Busting}
\chapterauthor{André DEVRIENDT}
\repigraph{Prison and forced labour are the only possible solution to the social question. It is to be hoped that the use will become general.}{\emph{Chicago Times} (May 1886).}
As soon as the freedom to form trade unions was legalized in 1884, the repression against their activities began! Often brutal, sometimes insidious.
@ -1827,7 +1846,7 @@ Trade unionism has taken severe blows, it has also fallen, misguided, but it is
To rebuild a powerful force, one must have in mind what Pierre-Joseph Proudhon said in Philosophie de la misère (Philosophy of misery):
\enquote{Whoever, in order to organize labor, appeals to power and capital, has lied, for the organization of labor must be the decay of capital and power.}
\section{André Devriendt}
\rauthor{André Devriendt}
André Devriendt is editor of the \emph{Monde Libertaire}.
He has held many trade union positions (secretary of the C.G.T. proofreaders' union, member of the national council and the board of the Federal Union of Book and Paper Industry Pensioners C.G.T., General Secretary and Vice-President of the National Press and Book Mutual, etc.).
@ -1860,7 +1879,7 @@ Marcel Caille, \emph{Les Truands du patronat} (The Mobsters of the bosses), Édi
\chapter[The armed gangs of Capital in Rep. France]{The armed gangs of Capital in Republican France}
Maurice RAJSFUS
\chapterauthor{Maurice RAJSFUS}
Capitalism is naturally black. Like this coal that helped to enrich the coal companies as soon as the nineteenth century. Black as the misery organized at the same time, by the forge masters.
It is impossible to forget that capitalist systems – national back then – were already taking their marks for expansion on a global scale, through colonialism.
@ -2089,7 +2108,7 @@ Until about 1950, police training lasted less than a month and the level of recr
Nowadays, the police academy lasts a year, and the new police officers, all at the baccalaureate level or bac plus two, have never been so racist, so sexist, so violent.
The policeman has turned into a vigilante, which is not his function, but Justice is a good mother with deviant police officers...
\section{Maurice Rajsfus}
\rauthor{Maurice Rajsfus}
Maurice Rajsfus is the author of twenty-two books, mainly devoted to repressive systems.
Last publications : \emph{Mai 68, sous les pavés, la répression}(May 68, under the cobblestones, repression) (Le Cherche midi éditeur, 1998) et \emph{En gros et en détail, Le Pen au quotidien} (In bulk and in detail, Le Pen on a daily basis) (Paris-Méditerranée, 1998).
@ -2097,7 +2116,7 @@ He chairs the Observatory of Civil Liberties, which publishes the monthly bullet
\chapter[The Great War: 24,500 casualties per day]{The Great War: 11,500 dead and 13,000 wounded per day for three and a half years}
Jean-Pierre FLÉCHARD
\chapterauthor{Jean-Pierre FLÉCHARD}
\begin{flushright}
\enquote{\emph{C’est le tango des joyeux militaires}
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All these treaties were difficult to implement, especially with regard to the demarcation of the new borders.
One could foresee that pacification would be long, painful, interrupted by new crisis. But the world was putting its hope in the League of Nations. We know what happened to it.
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