The current development of the world: illusions and realities, 1927

Le Bon believes that the coming wars will not be limited to weapons. Rather, he goes further than that, considering that economic wars are more cruel and ferocious. In this context, the writer admits that if Germany, in the midst of World War I, had contented itself with waging an economic war without resorting to a military war, it would have been victorious today, and the Allies would have suffe...