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The war has disclosed the possibility of consumption to all and the vanity of limitation to many.
Nations are real things, of whom you love one and feel for the rest indifference- or hatred. The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense. The politics of power are inevitable.
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation (click here to learn more about inflation), governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of a society, than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose it.