How was this book even published in 1935? . Who the fuck is Smedley Butler? . Why did the FBI shoot him with a cancer gun? . . >I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place f

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Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 02:29:55 No.643328

How was this book even published in 1935?
Who the fuck is Smedley Butler?
Why did the FBI shoot him with a cancer gun?

>I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 02:54:23 No.643357

>>643328
>Who the fuck is Smedley Butler?
He was a burger soldier of imperialism that came to regret al the massacres and such he did in later life in a self serving attempt to absolve himself from the demons that come with such behavior. The kind of coward you wish hell existed for.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 03:02:20 No.643375

>>643328
>Who the fuck is Smedley Butler?

A field marshal with good stats in Kaiserreich.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 04:29:17 No.643426

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 12:32:37 No.643670

>OP discovers pre-WWII American liberal anti-imperialism
OH NO NO NO NO NO

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 12:33:52 No.643672

>>643357
oh cmon, his bravery makes him better than like 95% of people

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 15:00:15 No.643844

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>>643672
>oh cmon, his bravery makes him better than like 95% of people
Are you joking? Most people wouldn't do what he did.. He was crucifying rebels and such all over the globe, mutilating fighters in the Boxer rebellion, Massacring Cacos in Haiti, literally nailing them up to pieces of wood. He went absoloutely above and beyond what most right-thinking people would do. If he was in a european state he'd have been the kind of fucker in the Congo hacking off limbs, i'm sure.
Absolute scumbag that deserved to be forgotten and nothing else. fuck you for thinking otherwise, burger

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 15:03:37 No.643846

>>643844
There's thousands of other high ranking officers that also were involved in US imperialism but this guy was the only (that I know of) to actually realise he was wrong and call out the bullshit. Like sure you can say he's wrong for what he did as part of the US military but come on.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 15:23:36 No.643866

>>643846
>>643844
He also helped thwart the Business Plot and gave a firsthand account of the horrors of imperialism straight from the horse's mouth. He was a traitor to imperialism and deserves to be recognized for this.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 15:29:15 No.643869

The US Marine Corps has a weird history of some of the most based leftist figures America has ever seen. Funny considering how it's now the military branch most likely to spawn full on right-wing death squads.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 15:41:21 No.643876

>>643869
who else?

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 15:45:19 No.643879

>>643866
>>643846
Bruv… If I kill 26 people but feel bad about it later do you be like 'How stunning and brave! what a lad!' of course not, that would be absurd. Why is that next prick any better because he told everyone what they probably already knew to salve his conscience years later?

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 15:49:14 No.643882

>>643879
>If I kill 26 people but feel bad about it later do you be like 'How stunning and brave! what a lad!'
You're thinking in terms of individual morality, like a liberal. If somebody spends their career as part of a murderous system, and then goes out of their way to harm that system and combat its worst aspects, then this should be commended. You're the type of person who wouldn't want veterans joining our movement I bet. Seems like you're more concerned with moralizing than building worker's power.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 15:54:41 No.643886

>>643882
>You're thinking in terms of individual morality, like a liberal. If somebody spends their career as part of a murderous system, and then goes out of their way to harm that system and combat its worst aspects, then this should be commended.
Maybe you are right in a way, sure what he did may have value but I still believe he was a scumbag. Do you really believe people change that much? go from imperialist killers to truly anti-imperialists? Because I simply cannot believe that.
> You're the type of person who wouldn't want veterans joining our movement I bet.
Unironically yes because why would I ever trust anyone with my freedom and whatnot who decided to go off and murder for the state? That would be absurd.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 16:08:01 No.643896

>>643886
>Do you really believe people change that much?
Arminius served with impeccable distinction in the Roman army before handing them their greatest defeat at Teutoburg. Stalin was going to school to be a priest before he joined the Bolsheviks. Former CPUSA members testified against the party at McCarthy's hearings. Vietnam veterans were a core part of the antiwar movement. I would say people can change quite a bit.
>Unironically yes because why would I ever trust anyone with my freedom and whatnot who decided to go off and murder for the state? That would be absurd.
No it wouldn't, it would be standard communist practice. Having veterans in our movement objectively strengthens it in many ways, from granting weight to critiques of imperialism, teaching valuable military skills, knowing the inner workings of the US security apparatus, etc.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 16:09:54 No.643898

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>>643876

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 16:11:39 No.643900

>>643898
He was a CIA agent.

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 16:52:49 No.643931

>>643886
<THE TSARIST ARMY CAN'T JOIN WITH THE SOVIETS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(You)

Anonymous 2021-12-13 (Mon) 16:54:28 No.643936

>>643931
>inb4 they were conscripts so it doesn't count
In Lenin's "Appeal to the Soldiers of all Belligerent Countries" he makes no distinction between conscripts and volunteers.

Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 01:38:43 No.669933

>>643886
>Do you really believe people change that much? go from imperialist killers to truly anti-imperialists?
Happened in many revolutions. There were Tsarist officers who flipped to the Bolsheviks and warlords who flipped to the Chinese communists.

Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 01:40:40 No.669936

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Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 01:46:14 No.669942

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>>669936
>look how much this white USano changed!
>he went from a filthy capitalist to a "comrade" grifting people on youtube

Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 01:50:25 No.669949

>>669942
He's probably done more for the cause than you have, brotato.
>grifting
Why do libs always project? If anyone's grifting people it's faggots like Agent Kochinski.

Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 01:51:56 No.669951

Thought experiment: if Henry Kissinger turned over a new leaf like Smedley Butler, would leftist give him the same amount of praise?

Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 03:22:59 No.670028

>>669951
Only if he Allahu akbar'd himself in the white house.

Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 05:16:07 No.670144

>>643886
Meanwhile, in the real world, Tsarist Army soldiers and officers defecting to Bolsheviks were responsible for storming the Winter Palace and kickstarting the October Revolution, while warship Aurora, taken over by its mutinous crew, fired on the Palace and threatened off loyalist soldiers. Later both groups became the core of the Red Army and Red Navy respectively. Generals like Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Sergey Kamenev, and Alexei Brusilov, all formerly generals in Tsarist Army, were important in the creation, organization, and victories of the Red Army in the Civil War

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