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 engaged in dealing with the defenders of improperty. The failure of capitalism in every capitalist country to deliver the goods, attested by the huge and continuous unemployment, has been a sufficient ground of condemnation to the mind of the ordinary citizen. Not all the sophistries of economists or of the owning classes can counter this exhibition of incompetence and waste. Hence the rally of the worker-citizens to the “socialist” cause and the alignment of the two camps within each nation and in the grouping of nations under the general terms of fascism and communism. Though neither of these terms can be said accurately to describe the conflicting forces, that a conflict is arising, more conscious and more determinate in its formation, and its aims, is incontestable. And the real struggle within each nation and in the international arena is waged for and against improperty.