Balázs Eszter: Art in action. Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from A Tett to Dokumentum, 1915-1927 - The avant-garde and its journals 3. (Budapest, 2017)

/ Signal to the World - WarAvant-GardenKassák

KASSÁK IN THE WAR DISCOURSE IN AUTUMN 1914

here, it is social solidarity which leads the armies to protect our vitality and our assets

by virtue of the health and capability to develop possessed by the [Hungarian] race, we have every chance to make a happier society

[In Germany] the finest flower of life, the solidarity of living for each other, is coming to fulfilment

Germany is one giant family with 65 million members

[we have] opened our eyes to the conservatism of the Germans the German police keep their eyes on the moral integrity of the country

[the French] have taken up arms out of political ambition

and the incitement of demagogues

a French child at the age of 13 becomes the same nattOW-minded, fanatic boor as his father and grandfather

Paris has happily received all kinds of nations

Paris was a hotbed of anarchism brought from every part of the world and was the starting point for the revolutionary fractions who want to reform the world by the dagger, the bomb, forged money, the artificial intensification of squalor,

and, ultimately, by suicide

Rural France wallows in ignorance and rages in hatred of foreigners

the physical sterility and mental decadence of the [French] race

cold English calculations warfare narcotized by pencil

the drunken mouzhik could be a huge mass of T3W material In Russia, you can do nothing but blindly obey or simply die

HUNGARIANS ENGLISH! GERMANS I FRENCH RUSSIANS!