Our country: its possible future and its present crisis

Our country: its possible future and its present crisis

by Strong, Josiah, 1847-1916; Congregational Home Missionary Society

Published 1885

Publisher New York : Published by the Baker & Tylor Co. for the American Home Missionary Society
Pages 268

REVIEW

“IN 'OUR COUNTRY’ published by the American Home Missionary Society,

Rev. Josiah Strong has given us a book whose

value lies in its facts and in the rare ability with which the

author has gathered and verified them. In successive chapters

he has sketched the spirit of the times, the National resources

and Western supremacy. He has depicted the perils from im-

migration, from Romanism, Mormonism, intemperance, social-

ism and wealth; the dangers from urban population and the

exhaustion of the public lands. His final chapter on ' Money

and the Kingdom ' reveals the purpose of the book, which is to

point Christians of this country to the present time as a critical

period in Christ's Kingdom, and to urge upon them the conse-

cration of their wealth to the cause of the Redeemer. The

book ought to be in the hands of every patriot in the land as a

thesaurus of important material facts and as an incentive to

stand on higher grounds of civic and religious duty."

The  Advance.

OUR COUNTRY:  ITS POSSIBLE FUTURE AND ITS PRESENT CRISIS.

BY  REV. JOSIAH STRONG, D. D.,

GENEBAL SECRETARY OF THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE

FOR THE UNITED STATES, NEW YORK.

With an Introduction, by

PROF. AUSTIN PHELPS, D. D.

THIS Volume was prepared for the American Home

Missionary Society by REV. JOSIAH STRONG, D.D., then its

representative for the work of Home Missions in Ohio,.

As will be seen at a glance, its main purpose is to lay

before the intelligent Christian people of our country

facts and arguments showing the imperative need of

Home Missionary work for the evangelization of the

land, the encouragements to such effort, and the danger

of neglecting it.

Copies for perusal and distribution can be obtained

from the publishers, The Baker & Taylor Co., No. 9

Bond Street, New York. Fifty cents in cloth binding

or Twenty-five cents in paper.

Copyrighted by the

AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY,

1885.

SIXTY years ago the American Home Missionary Society was

organized to assist congregations that are unable to support the

Gospel ministry and TO SEND THE GOSPEL AND THE MEANS

OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION TO THE DESTITUTE WITHIN THE UNITED

STATES.

It began its work near the commencement of that great

“world-movement" described in this volume. In 1826, when

Western New York was a frontier region, two -thirds of its

missionaries were found in this State.

Now they are laboring in nearly every State and Territory of

the Union. Over 1,000 are in States south and west of New

York. Who can estimate the influence they are exerting in

building up the new communities on Christian foundations?

Some idea of the magnitude and scope of the Society's work

may be gained from the following facts.

In sixty -one year’s its missionaries have organized 4,951

churches and brought 2,430 to self-support. They have gathered

into these churches 345, 973 members. Cash receipts, $11,586,-

692,20,

During the sixty -first year 1,571 missionaries ministered to

3,063 congregations and 129,350 Sunday-school scholars;

organizing 135 new churches and 323 new Sunday-schools

and receiving into the churches 10,031 members.

Cash receipts, $482,979,60.

Never before were the calls for Home Missionary work so

loud. Never were the doors so wide open in all parts of the

land. Never were our institutions in greater peril. Head in

this book of these perils and their remedy. Then let every

patriot and Christian ask if he is not responsible for applying

this remedy. The average cost to this Society for each of its

missionaries is $471 per year.

Are there not many who will each contribute enough to sup-

port at least one such Christian worker ?

SAVE AMERICA TO SAVE THE WORLD !

EXCERPTS

PREFACE

It is worthy of note that almost all the thinking which think-

ing men have given to the subject for the last fifty years has

been in the line of the leading idea which this volume enforces

the idea of crisis in the destiny of this country, and through

it in the destiny, of the world. The common sense of men

puts into homely phrase the great principles which underlie

great enterprises. One such phrase lies under the Christian

civilization of our land. It is " the nick of time." The pres-

ent hour is, and always has been, " the nick of time" in our

history. The principle which underlies all probationary ex-

perience comes to view in organized society with more stu-

pendous import than in individual destiny. This book puts

the evidence of that in a form of cumulative force which is

overwhelming.

Fifty years ago our watchful fathers discerned it in their

forecast of the future of the Republic. The wisest among

them even then began to doubt how long the original stock of

American society could bear the interfusion of elements alien

to our history and to the faith of our ancestry. The conviction

was then often expressed that the case was hopeless

Success in the work of the world's conversion has, with

rare exceptions, followed the lines of human growth and pro-

spective greatness. But a single exception occurs to one's

memory that of the Hawaiian Islands. Seldom has a nation

been converted to Christ, only to die. The general law has

been that Christianity should seat itself in the great metropoli-

tan centers of population and of civilized progress. It has

allied itself with the most virile races. It has taken possession

of the most vigorous and enterprising nations. The coloniz-

ing races and nations have been its favorites. It has aban-

doned the dying for the nascent languages. Its affinities have

always been for the youthful, the forceful, the progressive,

the aspiring in human character, and for that stock of mind

from which such character springs. By natural sequence, tne

localities where those elements of powerful manhood are, or

are to be, in most vigorous development, have been the strategic

points of which our religion has taken possession as by a

masterly military genius.

SOME OF THE TABLE OF CONTENTS (TOC)

CHAPTER V

PERILS. ROMANISM.

I. Conflict of Romanism with the fundamental principles of our

government ; liberty of conscience ; free speech, and a free press ;

free schools ; loyalty to the Constitution and loyalty to the Pope.

2. Attitude toward our free institutions. 3. Rapid growth of Roman-

ism in the United States, especially in the West. P. 46.

CHAPTER VI.

PERILS. MORMONISM.

Polygamy not an essential part of Mormonism; might be de-

stroyed without weakening the system. Strength lies in ecclesiastical

despotism. Mormon designs. The remedy. P. 59.

CHAPTER VII.

PERILS. INTEMPERANCE.

I. The progress of civilization renders men the easier victims of

intemperance. Civilization must destroy the liquor traffic, or be de-

stroyed by it. The problem serious enough in the East. What of

the West, where the relative power of the saloon is two-and-one-half

times greater?

II. The liquor power; wealth; organization; aims; methods.

Influence in Rocky Mountains and beyond. P. 68.

CHAPTER VIII.

PERILS. SOCIALISM.

The Socialistic Labor Party and the International Working-men's

Association. Teachings. Numbers. Conditions favorable to growth :

1. Immigration ; 2. Increasing Individualism;

3. Prevalence of skepticism ; 4. Development of classes

5. Growing discontent. Modern enginery of destruction.

Conditions at the West peculiarly favorable to the growth of Socialism. P. 85.

CHAPTER IX.

PERILS. WEALTH.

Comparative statement of wealth. Rate of increase. Advantages

over Europe. Dangers: 1. Mammonism; 2. Materialism;

3. Luxuriousness ; 4. Congestion of wealth. All these dangers

greater at the West than at the East. P. 1*2.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE ANGLO-SAXON AND THE WORLD'S FUTURE.

Reasons why the world's future is to be shaped by the Anglo-

Saxon. The United States to be the seat of his power. The most

marked characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon race are here being empha-

sized, and the race schooled for the competition with other races,

which will begin as soon as the pressure of population on the means

of support is felt in the United States. The result of that competi-

tion. The responsibility of this generation. P. 159.

EXCERPTS

CHAPTER XIV MONEY AND THE KINGDOM

Christianize the immigrant and he will be easily

Americanized. Christianity is the solvent of all race

antipathies. Give the Romanist a pure gospel and he

will cease to be a Romanist. It has already been shown

that Christian education will solve the Mormon prob-

lem. The temperance reform, like all others which de-

pend on popular agitation, must have money, and i*

being retarded by the lack of it. Concerning the rem-

edy for socialism, accept the opinion of an economist

who has made it a subject of special study. Says Prof.

Ely : " It is an undoubted fact that modern socialism

of the worst type is spreading to an alarming extent

among our laboring classes, both foreign and native. I

think the danger is of such a character as should arouse

the Christian people of this country to most earnest

efforts for the evangelization of the poorer classes,

particularly in large cities. What is needed is Chris-

tianity, and the Christian church can do far more than

political economists toward a reconciliation of social

classes. The church's remedy for social discontent and

dynamite bombs is Christianity as taught in the New

Testament. Now in all this you will find nothing new.

It is only significant in this regard : others have come

to these conclusions from the study of the Bible ; from

a totally different starting point, from the study of

Political economy, I have come to the same goal."*

But the acceptance of the Christian doctrine con-

cerning property would have a direct, as well as indi-

rect, influence on socialism. Let us, therefore, dwell

a moment on the subject.

In the popular ferment, a hundred years ago, which

culminated in the French ^Revolution, the demand was

for equal rights and the watchword was Liberty. There

is a popular ferment throughout Europe to-day which

is more universal and extends to the United States.

The popular demand now is equality of condition, and

the watchword is Property a cry the meaning of

which the dullest and most earthly can understand.

This movement, which is steadily gathering force, re-

sults from the two most striking facts of the Nineteenth

century : first, the general diffusion of knowledge

through the press, which has wonderfully multiplied

wants up and down the entire social scale ; and, sec-

ond, the creation of immense wealth by means of the

steam engine. But this wealth, which is necessary to

the satisfaction of these wants, has been massed. In a

word, the difficulty is knowledge multiplied and popu-

larized, and wealth multiplied and centralized.

The right distribution of property, which is the ker-

nel of the social question, is the great problem of our

civilization ; and it may well be doubted whether the

true solution will be found until the church accepts,

both in doctrine and practice, the teaching of God's

"Word touching possessions. For the church is re-

sponsible for public opinion on all moral questions, and

no great question of rights can be settled for the world

until Christian men come into right relations with it.

The inexorable law of our present industrial system

is that the cost of subsistence determines the rate of

wages. This makes no provision for the higher wants

of increasing intelligence, and therefore insures an in-

creasing popular discontent. It would seem that the

solution of the great difficulties between capital and

labor must be found in some form of co-operation by

which the workman will be admitted to a just share in

the profits of his labor. Professor Cairns, who is con-

sidered one of the greatest economists England has

produced, believes that co-operative production affords

the laboring classes " the sole means of escape from a

harsh and hopeless destiny" (" Leading Principles," p.

338). Referring to several thousand co-operative so-

cieties in England, having some millions of capital,

Thomas Hughes says : " I still look to this movement

as the best hope for England and other lands." The

eminent statistician, Carroll D. Wright, the head of

the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, re-

ferring to the duty of the rich manufacturer to regard

himself as " an instrument of God for the upbuilding

of the race," and the promotion of the highest welfare

of those in his employ, says : " This may sound like

sentiment. I am willing to call it sentiment ; but I

know it means the best material prosperity, and that

every employer who has been guided by such senti-

ments has been rewarded two-fold ; first, in witnessing

the wonderful improvement of his people, and, second,

in seeing his dividends increase, and the wages of ins

operatives increase with his dividends. The factory

system of the future will be run on this basis. The

instances of such are multiplying rapidly now." Man-

ifestly, the acceptance on the part of Christian capital-

ists of the scriptural doctrine of possessions would

greatly facilitate the introduction of co-operation or

any other plan which promised justice to the work-

man.

The Christian man who is not willing to make the

largest profits which an honest regard for the laws of

trade permits is a rare man. But the laws of trade

permit much that the laws of God do not permit.

Many transactions are commercially honest which ax>

not righteous. If, now, a man accepts the truth that

his possessions are a trust to be administered for God's

glory, he will not consent to increase them by any un-

righteous means. And since justice and righteousness,

like honesty, will prove to be the best policy, the ac-

ceptance on the part of Christian men of a thoroughly

righteous plan of co-operation between capital and la-

bor would eventually compel its general acceptance.

Let Christian men gain a correct conception of their

relations to their possessions, let them accept the duty

of Christian stewardship, and it would command their

getting as well as their spending. There would be no

motive to drive a sharp bargain. It would purify

trade. It would mediate between capital and labor.

It would destroy the foundation on which the rising

structure of socialism rests. It would cut one of the

principal roots of popular unbelief ; for extended in-

quiry in Cincinnati elicited the almost unanimous re-

sponse that the reason workingmen neglect the

churches is that there are on the church rolls the

names of employers who wrong their employes.

The acceptance of the true principle of Christian

giving is urged upon us by the fact that money is

power, which is needed everywhere for elevating and

saving men. It is further urged upon us by the fact

that only such a view of possessions will save us from

the great and imminent perils of wealth. God might

have sent his angels to sing his gospel through the

world, or he might have written it on the sky, and

made the clouds his messengers ; but we need to bear

the responsibility of publishing that gospel. He might

mak^ the safe of every benevolent society a gold mine

as unfailing as the widow's cruse of oil ; but we need

to give that gold. The tendency of human nature, in-

tensified by our commercial activity, is to make the life

a whirlpool a great maelstrom which draws every-

thing into itself. "What is needed to-day is a grand re-

versal of the movement, a transformation of the life

into a fountain. And in an exceptional degree is this

the need of Anglo-Saxons. Their strong love of lib-

erty, and their acquisitiveness, afford a powerful temp-

tation to offer some substitute for self-abnegation.

We would call no man master. We must take Christ

as master. We would possess all things ; we must

surrender all things.

One of the grave problems before us is how to make

great material prosperity conduce to individual 

advancement. The severest poverty is unfavorable to

morality. Up to a certain point increase of property

serves to elevate man morally and intellectually, while

it improves him physically. But, as nations grow rich,

they are prone to become self-indulgent, effeminate,

immoral. The physical nature becomes less robust,

the intellectual nature less vigorous, the moral less

pure. The pampered civilizations of old had to be re-

invigorated, from time to time, with fresh infusions of

barbaric blood a remedy no longer available. If we

cannot find in Christianity a remedy or preventive, our

Christian civilization and the world itself is a failure;

and our rapidly increasing wealth, like the 

"cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold," 

will curse us unto destruction.

AN OUTRODUCTION 

COMMENTARY BY EUGENE PLAWIUK    

I came across this interesting text by an American Evangelical Alliance, while presumably Baptist, it was non sectarian in support of American Protestant Sects,including the Mormons if they were reformed.        

America is a self realization of two forces, those of the liberal enlightenment, Freemasonry and its bourgeois values were perfectly crafted for both colonial and post colonial America. 

It represents both the left and the right, the anarchist artisan, and the libertarian self employed owner, the artisan and the self employed both could become at anytime, a boss or a worker, until the rise of industrialization immediately before, during and after the Civil War then the artisanal nature of America changed.

The Knights of St. Crispin are an excellent example of how the first Capitalist Industrial War, the American Civil War, changed the nature of shoe making. The Knights were founded in the 18th century as a craft guild association and proto union, for shoemakers. At that time in North America, and into the middle of the 19th century, shoe making like many crafts were labour intensive, and involved the whole family.  

The Knights were an East Coast phenomena in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,Maine, into the Maritimes, such as New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada. 

The Knights originated in the UK and their rites and rituals were brought to North America through New Brunswick. Guild Associations are an ancient tradition among artisans and craftsmen. Like a union they determine the piece work wages that they will make as well as the price set for the sale of the finished product. In other words they controlled the means of production directly. 

In this they were no different then their predecessors in the weaving trades, who were being transformed into mass workers in factories in Europe. Not all trades suffered mass industrialization as early and as totally as the Weavers did. And so various guild associations carried on like the Knights of St. Crispin who originated in the late medieval period. 

Shoemaking then was a family affair, and in America a family would also be a land owner and a sharer in the commonwealth of the community , such as grazing lands, since land was so freely available more so than in Europe. This allowed the family to produce their own food and shelter, and to practice their craft and trade as well. This required people to be living in towns, villages and cities.

In shoemaking the father did the heavy work with the hard leather, and hammering of soles,

the mother cut and fashioned the shoe and the children sewed with their small hands, a practice still conducted today in developing countries that used child labour. The father also sewed, especially the heavy awl work of stitching.  All this was done to Knights standards,

if a shoemaker was found to have sold cheap or below standards, fines would be applied as has been the guild tradition for thousands of years.

There were weavers in America too at this time but they too like the shoemakers would become extinct crafts as industrialization created mass workers for the war effort. A decline in active members of the Knights of St. Crispin can be seen as steady for a decade prior to the Civil War, by the end of the Civil War the Knights only existed in Quebec and New Brunswick. In the United States they were replaced with mass production of shoes for the metropoles, and for the war. The workers were women and children in these factories, leaving the men to find a different trade, or work elsewhere, or farm. 

In the North the Civil War produced a manufacturing industry and a new capitalist class,

it also required masses of workers, these came from immigration even more so than from the freed slaves of the South. Chicago is a good example of the integration that mass production created, in the ghettos around the packing plants were German, Polish and Ukrainian immigrants who arrived at the same time as many of the Black families coming to join their relatives in Chicago where they heard there were jobs to be had.  After the Civil War the abattoirs of Chicago fed the nation and its commodities exchange ruled the farmers of America. 

Chicago was America's mass industrialized city, it has long been the home to the commodity exchange, especially in Cattle, and it was connect to Canada via Winnipeg which was an equivalent boom town of banks, railroads, grains and beef. Americas farmers were beholding to Chicago in many ways, those folks who earlier had been self employed now moved off the land and into the city. That land became privatized, parceled out and bought by farmers. The farmers traded their cattle in Chicago, they got feed, fertilizer and most importantly farm implements 

Chicago had a booming farm equipment manufacturing industry, employing those former 
shoemakers, and other small craftsmen, as well as immigrants. working in these farm equipment plants.  One of those plants would become the focus of the International Workingmen's Association, the Knights of Labour, and members of the Socialist Labour Party. It was the McCormick Works and a year after the publication of this pamphlet, and the year was 1886, the fight was for the eight hour day, and the resulting strike and protest lead the famous Haymarket Riot. 

It is in this time of rapid capitalist growth in America that the Evangelical movement sees 
the need for another Home Missionary Movement to combat Catholicism brought in by the Immigrants from Europe. Conversion for heathen and papist was the cry. As it had been in 1826.

At that time America faced its first anti masonic purge and Baptist Revivalism which ended up in the Know Nothing Party. The Baptist revival was an evangelical mass movement 
to confirm America as a Protestant Nation, the first ever 'pure Aryan' Protestant nation.
Unlike Europe where all nations were Catholic and then converted to Protestantism.

Despite their roots in European culture, what had been the Anabaptist religious movement changed when it arrived in America, it dropped Ana, and simply became Baptist. And it was 
generic at that, anyone could call themselves Baptist, even Presbyterians. The Anabaptists that remained were the collectivist cults, like Mennonites, Hutterites, Amish, Dukhbour.

America created modern Protestant Evangelicalism and modern Protestantism as well as allowing for all kinds of cults and sects Christian or otherwise.  Why cults, because they believed in the end times, the rapture, what is now mainstream for the 700 Club was then
cultic beliefs which meant persecution.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the largest of several Adventist groups which arose from the Millerite movement of the 1840s in upstate New York, a phase of the Second Great Awakening. William Miller predicted on the basis of Daniel 8:14–16 and the "day-year principle" that Jesus Christ would return to Earth between the spring of 1843 and the spring of 1844. In the summer of 1844, Millerites came to believe that Jesus would return on October 22, 1844, understood to be the biblical Day of Atonement for that year. When this did not happen (an event known as the "Great Disappointment"), most of his followers disbanded and returned to their original churches.

New York State, was home to many of the early alternative sects, cults of Christianity and of Spiritualists and Soothsayers, Theosophists to Freemasons, Odd Fellows and other fraternal orders and to Nativist Sects.

The  communistic protestants the Shakers were there as was the town of Lilydale full of Spiritualist communing with dead It was in this spiritual milieu that Joseph Smith traveled in before his revelation and creation of the Mormon Church, with rites and rituals he 'borrowed' from Freemasonry.

One of the newest forms of Protestantism that caught in America more so than even in its native England, was Millenarism which has existed since the time of the Old Testament if not even earlier. But we can document these movements, and they occur as features of 
End Times, Apocalyptic cults believing in the end of the world. In America these cults became so called  Christian sects like the Seventh Day Adventists and the Jehovah Witness movement. While they originate in Protestantism, they are not Christian, they are cultic interpretations of the bible to prove their predictions. It is still with us today and it calls itself the Moral Majority.

Ironically the author of this propaganda pamphlet would be considered a socialist heretic to today's Moral Majority and other End Times types of Evangelists. They would not even recognize his Aryan Anglo Saxon as being the same as their Nativist White Nationalism.

There are similarities in this work with today's White Nationalism, it reference to Aryan and Anglo Saxonism as Aryan. Aryan as Christian, and that means White people. There are no Negros in this book and there are no Red Men, not even the white fraternity by that name. 

This is the empty frontier of America, of FJ Turner, no Indians, and of course no freed or runaway slaves. There is lots of land, minerals, lumber, all free for the taking. It is the West that our author wants to fill with evangelical Aryan Christians. No others need apply especially not immigrants 

So along with missing people of Afro American descent or First Nations, also the with the immigrant, they must be the right kind of White People, not Catholic, not socialist or union trouble makers, nor rampant capitalists.

Our author would be astonished to learn that today his American counterpart scoffs at the idea socialism in America. And yet here it is, of course like today's Aryan Nationalist Nativist it is not natural or homegrown, it is again blamed on the immigrant, whether from Canada or Europe, just like Catholicism, is not considered native to America, despite the founding of North America by the French and Jesuits. 

Again like populist politicians who decry the rich and powerful, like Trump or the Kingfisher, even Teddy Roosevelt, there belief is in Aryan idealism, just as the author equates as did Roosevelt, Aryanism with Americanism with Manliness, Strength, and Moral Purity. Of course such a being, a person or a nation then is entitled to rule over the world.

But, as nations grow rich,they are prone to become self-indulgent, effeminate,immoral. The physical nature becomes less robust, the intellectual nature less vigorous, the moral less pure. The pampered civilizations of old had to be re-invigorated, from time to time, with fresh infusions of barbaric blood a remedy no longer available. If we cannot find in Christianity a remedy or preventive, ourChristian civilization and the world itself is a failure;and our rapidly increasing wealth, like the "cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold," will curse us unto destruction.

Teddy Roosevelt could have said this so could Steve Bannon. In fact you probably have read the same statements in any number of right wing commentaries published by such intellectual light weight pundits as Bannon and ilk.

Finally lets discuss the most obvious statement, the idea of Crisis. What crisis, the author in the end attests it is one of Aryan or Christian civilization the two being equivalent. A multicultural America is the bugaboo of the assimilationist, scratch the surface and you find a nativist Aryan. 

The real crisis as it is today, is the changing nature of bourgeois capitalist society. As it was then it is today, society is going through major changes at all levels, including the transformation of the means of production into robotics, cybernetics and AI. It means capitalism itself is transforming through technological change, not just to a gig economy but eventually a return to artisanal production at home using new technologies like 3D printing.

As well the collapsing nature of capitalism as well as its positivist transformations, it remains in permanent crisis, why in order to sell weapons, oil, etc. Since the turn of last century the Barbarism of capitalism that we first saw in the American Civil War created the First and Second World Wars, interrupted by two revolutions the Russian and Spanish.

Since then there has been no real post war peace, war continued on the Korean Peninsula,
unresolved it was the beginning of many failed missions by American Imperialism to dominate the Asia Pacific as well as Europe and the Middle East. Today North Korea is 
convenient scapegoat that loves the role and attention it merits 

After Korea it was Vietnam, picking up from the French who abandoned the struggle against
post war nationalism and anti-colonialism, something you would have thought America would champion, but this was the era of the Red Scare and the Cold War.

Cuba was subject to American Imperialism as well as Santa Domingo, whose general strike was viciously put down by American Troops. many of them black being asked to shoot 
unarmed protestors. 

As Michael Kidron wrote post modern Capitalism and its State are what Eisenhower called the Military Industrial Complex and what Kidron calls  the Permanent Arms Economy, as famed Canadian economist Kenneth Galbraith also discussed in his book and TV series
that came out at the same time in Seventies.

Kidron has been proven right by the continuous sale of weapons world wide, and it is these weapons that are the source of other crimes, in particular drug running, in order to pay for them. America  is the worlds largest gun runner, if its not creating wars, invasions it is selling weapons to those in conflict.

Its most recent sale to a client state, was over $100 million dollars to Saudi Arabia, for them to also gun run and to use against the Shia whom they are conducting an ethnic cleansing war in Yemen.

Wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, all caused by the USA in its so called war on Terror, which is just another name for gun running.

Today we face once again the choice Socialism for survival and sustainability, vs Barbarism.
The Barbarians are Aryan Nationalist White Nationalists America, Brit, Russian, French,etc etc Nationalists. Nationalism is Fascism.

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