@article {Vollmer:1 April 2003:0304-6257:181, author = "Vollmer, Jorg", title = "Gift/Gas oder das Phantasma der reinigenden Gewalt Johannes R. Becher: (CH Cl = CH)3 As (Levisite) oder Der einzig gerechte Krieg (1926)", journal = "Amsterdamer BeitrĠge zur neueren Germanistik", volume = "53", year = "1 April 2003", abstract = "In Johannes R. Becher's novel (CH Cl = CH)3 As (Levisite) oder Der einzig gerechte Krieg (1926) a line is drawn from the experience of chemical warfare since 1915 to a possible civil war in the future (seen from 1925), in which the capitalist system destroys itself. "Gas" is here the metaphor for capitalism, and its use in a future war marks the turning point in an apocalyptic process, out of which Communism is born.", pages = "181-193(13)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/abng/2003/00000053/00000001/art00011" }