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Show j THE NEXT NINE YEAIIS An Analysis anil a Prophecy hr Winy Anderson First Printing, July 1938 j Has it not appeared strange what a similarity exists be- iE tween the government of the nation called Communist, Russia; and those called Fascist; Italy, Germany, Austria, Brazil, Japan, etc? Both extremes are corporate states, both ruled JH1 by dictators, both with a planned economy. The difference rests in their ideals. rJ In the Communist state (Russia) every citizen is recognised as a stockholder of the corporate state (which is a state that has taken over all corporations engaged in production and em- bodied them in a super-corporation, the nation itself). Their 'J and factories, that there be plenty for all, without overproduc-jt overproduc-jt tion and waste. Unemployment does not exist and everyone is engaged in raising the standard of living. The Nazi-Fascist countries have the old ideals of feudalism, slavery and oppression. Here also is the corporate state but with a difference. The few at the top, who have furnished the J money to bring to power the Fascist dictator, aim to skim off all profits for themselves. The citizen is not a stockholder but a slave. There is planned economy for war and the production of war materials. Steadily the standard of living goes down for the man who produces. It isn't peace that these nations want but war and war it will be. And after it is over the owning classes will be no more. Not only will they lose their properties but their lives as well, with a cost to the nations of countless billions in capital and millions mil-lions of lives. The democratic countries, today, are battle grounds for progressive-Fascist groups within themselves. Those nations, in which the owning class gains control, will join the ranks of the Fascist nations in the war of Armageddon. The nations in which labor retains control will become Communistic and allies of Russia. The Fascists will win the world battle but, like all wars, those who win, lose. Every Fascist nation will have a revolution, and a civil war, and the rich man will be unable to 1J find a hole to crawl into. Cities will be destroyed; epidemics j Jl and pestilence will sweep the world; great earth changes will j take place, and the year 1948 will find a chastened and changed world. 1 The next nine yevars will see the complete collapse of the financial system now in use throughout the world. The priest- hood, as represented by the Roman Catholic Church and other j 1 state religions, will be abolished; labor unions will be no more j nor will there be any laws preventing the free choice of a pro- ' fession, world travel, or choice of residence. There will be no duties, nor tariffs; no warships, nor armies; no restrictions upon the liberties of man or nation after 1948. |