Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, 1879–1952
Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, 1879–1952
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“Salvation by history” — H. G. Wells, The Undying Fire
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
H. G. Wells described the devil and the adversary of all that is good as “the Unexpected,”[1] a condition suitable for any discussion concerning economics and C. H. Douglas. (more…)
Monetary reformer Antony Migchels
Monetary reformer Antony Migchels
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Dutch-based financial reformer Anthony Migchels returns to The Stark Truth. His blog is http://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/. (more…)
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Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya was born in New York City. (more…)
The Monte di Pietà, Florence, established in the late 15th century by Franciscan brothers to make small, interest-free loans to give people an alternative to usurious moneylenders.
The Monte di Pietà, Florence, established in the late 15th century by Franciscan brothers to make small, interest-free loans to give people an alternative to usurious moneylenders.
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The other major use of sortition practiced in the Italian city-states was the “scrutiny,” which to a greater or lesser extent governed Florentine political life for 300 years. Similar schemes were practiced in Orvieto, Siena, Pistoia, Perugia, and Lucca. The scrutiny was different than the brevia. Whereas the brevia used sortition to determine the composition of an electoral college, the scrutiny was an inversion of this, using voting first to create a short-list of acceptable candidates and then applying sortition in the final stage to draw at random a candidate from this pre-vetted pool.[1]
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XIV.
Alas, the country! How shall tongue or pen
Bewail her now uncountry gentlemen?
The last to bid the cry of warfare cease,
The first to make a malady of peace.
For what were all these country patriots born?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
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Marinus van Reymerswaele, “The Money Lenders”
Marinus van Reymerswaele, “The Money Lenders”
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Robert Stark interviews interest-free currency activist Anthony Migchels. His website is Real Currencies.
Topics discussed include:
Gottfried Feder, 1883–1941
Gottfried Feder, 1883–1941
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Gottfried Feder
Manifesto for the Breaking of the Financial Slavery to Interest
Foreword by Rodney Martin
Translated with a Preface by Dr. Alexander Jacob.
(Uckfield, Sussex: Historical Review Press, 2012)
This volume by Feder is the first of a series of small books by the important, albeit now obscure German campaigner against usury. (more…)
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Editor’s Note:
In commemoration of the death of Ezra Pound on November 1, 1972, we are reprinting chapter 7 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, published by Counter-Currents.
“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.”—Ezra Pound[1]
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1944
The main events dealt with in this pamphlet are:
(1) The suppression of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania, A.D. 1750. (more…)
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Counter-Currents has republished four of Ezra Pound’s works on economics. These texts were already available online. (more…)
Ezra Pound in the 1920s
Ezra Pound in the 1920s
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“The earth belongs to the living.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Definitions
Increment of association: Advantage men get from working together instead of each on his own, e.g., crew that can work a ship whereas the men separately couldn’t sail ships each on his own.
Cultural heritage: Increment of association with all past inventiveness, (more…)
