Having visited Berlin and Auschwitz, I agree with you. I just implore you not to take the perils of the military industrial complex required to defeat such evil lightly. Especially important is the alienation that it creates in its adherents, which prefigures additional evil. To paraphrase Einstein, our civilization will not survive the next world war.

Since you're into Douglass, here's a snippet from across the ocean. One of our greatest poets was Petőfi, who rallied the Hungarians to revolution against the Habsburgs. He died in the war but his compatriot, Kossuth, escaped and toured America, and much was written about him in Douglass' paper.

The parallels to today are uncanny, with a war in Crimea, a divided Europe, and an overstretched Anglo empire.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yes; trust me when I say that the parallels to the 1930s have filled me with anxiety these past few years, and especially so in the past 4 months. Thank you for the link about Petofi; I had not heard of him.