Synopsis
A former State Department diplomat and international banker, Lawrence Dennis had personal experience of the machinery of international politics. His classic book "The Dynamics of War and Revolution," first published in 1940, foreshadowed Orwell’s "Ninety-Eighty Four," arguing that the government uses perpetual wars to overcome domestic unemployment and boost profits, and reveals the part played by over-production and debt money in fomenting internal chaos (revolution) and external strife (war).Part I. Back to first 1. The social need of permanent revolution. 2. The victors make the rules. 3. The international jungle. Part The end of the capitalist 4. The industrial the profits of new monopolies. 5. The the profits of free land. 6. Rapid population the profits of cheap labor. 7. Easy wars of bows and arrows vs the machine gun. 8. The masses go to school and the polls. Part The new Mars, the 9. Necessities and frustrations. 10. We fight because of democracy's failure. 11. From capitalist to socialist imperialism. 12. The return to discipline. 13. Power politics. 14. Realism ends in foreign affairs when the people rule. 15. The bloody futility of frustrating the strong. 16. After war, pyramid building. 17. We stagnate because there is no common will to action. 18. Out of war a new revolutionary folk unity.
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