The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slau...
Woods, Alan What passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns." -Wilfred Owen, 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' On 28 June 1914, two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo. Those shots reverberated around Europe and shattered the peace of the whole world. This was the beginning of the Great Slaughter. Could it have been avoided? Alan Woods uses the method of Marxism to answer this question. He explain...