"Everywhere war and monstrous economic exploitation are intensified, so that those very same increments of power and opportunity which have brought mankind within sight of an age of limitless plenty seem likely to be lost again, and, it may be, lost for ever, in a chaotic and irremediable social collapse. It becomes clear that a unified political, economic and social order can alone put an end to these national and private appropriations that now waste the mighty possibilities of our time."
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"Introduction to the Declaration of the Rights of Man", in The Common Sense of War and Peace : World Revolution or War Unending. London, Penguin Books, 1940. Quoted in Benn,Tony, Writings on the Wall : A Radical and Socialist Anthology, 1215-1984, London, Faber & Faber, (pg. 292).
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