

It’s The Economist, what do you expect? They have always been the same. Even Lenin wrote about it: “The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war. Representatives of advanced capital in the oldest and richest capitalist country, are shedding tears over the war and incessantly voicing a wish for peace. Those Social-Democrats who, together with the opportunists and Kautsky, think that a socialist programme consists in the propaganda of peace, will find proof of their error if they read The Economist. Their programme is not socialist, but bourgeois-pacifist. Dreams of peace, without propaganda of revolutionary action, express only a horror of war, but have nothing in common with socialism.” (Lenin 1915)
When I try to explain this to people, they usually say “Why should we care about other countries? We don’t need to pay for their expenses! It’s theit fault that they let themselves be exploited, we also didn’t have outside help.” and I dont know how to respond to that…