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ABC of Economics, Part 4

4,781 words

Part 4 of 5

Chapter I

Politics, A Necessary Digression

Science or no science an economic system or lack-of-system is bound to be affected by the political system in which or beside which it exists, and more especially by the preconceptions or prejudices or predispositions and attitudes implied in the political system. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, banking, book excerpts, deflation, economics, Ezra Pound, inflation, leisure, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, the gold standard, Third Way economics | Comments closed

ABC of Economics (1933), Part 3

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Part 3 of 5

Chapter I

Costing

Published: December 10, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged banking, book excerpts, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics, Thomas Jefferson | Comments closed

ABC of Economics (1933), Part 2

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Part 2 of 5

Chapter I

On Volition

Published: December 7, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged banking, book excerpts, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics | Comments closed

ABC of Economics (1933), Part 1

2,306 words

Part 1 of 5

The aim of this brochure is to express the fundamentals of economics so simply and clearly that even people of different economic schools and factions will be able to understand each other when they discuss them.

After about forty pages I shall not ‘descend’, but I shall certainly go into, ‘go down into’ repetitions and restatements in the hope of reaching this clarity and simplicity. Read more …

Published: December 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged banking, book excerpts, economics, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics | Comments closed

Ezra Pound

Kerry Bolton

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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]

Published: November 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, banking, Benito Mussolini, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, poetry, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

Social Credit: An Impact

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, Read more …

Published: October 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, usury | Comments closed

Podcast no. 12
Matt Parrott, “Trayvon & the End of White Guilt”; Greg Johnson, “Thoughts on Debt Repudiation”

Counter-Currents Radio

time: 30:38/55 words

To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as.”

To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Read more …

Published: April 14, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged agrarianism, Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, anti-white propaganda, Aristotle, articles, banking, Counter-Currents Radion, debt, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, Matt Parrott, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, Solon, Trayvon Martin, usury, white guilt, white nationalism | Comments closed

An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States

Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of Ezra Pound

7,875 words

This is not a SHORT History of the Economy of the United States. For forty years I have schooled myself, not to write the Economic History of the U.S. or any other country, but to write an epic poem which begins “In the Dark Forest,” Read more …

Published: March 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American history, articles, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics | Comments closed

Réflexions sur la répudiation de la dette

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1781–1853, « Solon, Législateur d’Athènes »

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English original here

Dans l’ancienne Athènes, les débiteurs qui étaient incapables de payer leurs créditeurs perdaient leur terre et étaient réduits à l’état de serfs qui devaient donner à leur propriétaire terrien un sixième de leur production, à perpétuité. Si la dette excédait le total des biens du débiteur, lui et sa famille étaient réduits à l’esclavage. Read more …

Published: March 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Aristotle, articles, banking, debt, economics, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, North American New Right, originals, populism, Solon, usury | Comments closed

Thoughts on Debt Repudiation

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1781–1853, "Solon, Legislator of Athens"

2,325 words

French translation here

In Ancient Athens, debtors who were unable to pay their creditors lost their land and were reduced to serfs who had to give their landlords one sixth of their produce in perpetuity. If the debt exceeded the debtor’s total assets, he and his family were reduced to slavery. Read more …

Published: February 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Aristotle, articles, banking, debt, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, North American New Right, originals, populism, Solon, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

De l’argent pour rien

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English original here

Chacun sait qu’il faut travailler pour avoir de l’argent. Et si quelqu’un vous donne simplement de l’argent, cela ne peut être que par l’expropriation du travail de quelqu’un d’autre. Read more …

Published: January 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, articles, C. H. Douglas, capitalism, economics, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, North American New Right, originals, Social Credit, socialism | Comments closed

Against the Gold Standard

Brooks Adams

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Editor’s Note:

What follows is chapter 11, “Modern Centralization,” from Brooks Adams, The Law of Civilization and Decay, Read more …

Published: January 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged banking, book exceprts, Brooks Adams, deflation, reprints, Samuel Loyd, Social Credit, the gold standard, the Rothschilds, Third Way economics | Comments closed

Money for Nothing

2,912 words

French translation here

Everybody knows you need to work for your money. And if somebody just gives you money, that can only be by the expropriation of somebody else’s labor. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, articles, C. H. Douglas, capitalism, economics, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, North American New Right, originals, Social Credit, socialism, Third Way economics | Comments closed

What is Money For?

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We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception.

I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. Read more …

Published: October 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, inflation, National Socialism, reprints, Silvio Gessel, Social Credit, Third Way economics, Thomas Jefferson, usury | Comments closed

Brooks Adams on the Romans

Peter Chardon Brooks Adams, 1848–1927

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Brooks Adams was an American historian and critic of capitalism from a classical republican/agrarian/populist point of view.

Brooks Adams was from an immensely accomplished family. He was a great-grandson of President John Adams, a grandson of President John Quincy Adams, a son of diplomat Charles Francis Adams, and the brother of Henry Adams, Read more …

Published: October 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, Brooks Adams, cheap labor, classical republicanism, deflation, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, North American New Right, originals, populism, Rome, the gold standard, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

The Romans

Brooks Adams

12,616 words

Chapter 1 of The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
Second Edition
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896 Read more …

Published: October 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, Brooks Adams, cheap labor, classical republicanism, deflation, economics, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Rome, the gold standard, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

James Angleton & Ezra Pound

Carolina Hartley

Ezra Pound painted by Wyndham Lewis

2,150 words

“For it is not the wolf or any of the other beasts that would join the contest in any noble danger, but rather a good man.” — Aristotle, Politics, Book IIX.

Published: October 31, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, banking, Carolina Hartley, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, James Angleton, North American New Right, on Pound, reprints, the CIA | Comments closed

This Difficult Individual Eustace Mullins—& the Remarkable Ezra Pound

Beatrice Mott

Eustace Mullins

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Earlier this year my friend Eustace Mullins passed away. He had been ailing for some time — at least since I first met him in 2006. Hopefully he is in a better place now.

Published: October 31, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, banking, Beatrice Mott, Eustace Mullins, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, on Pound, reprints, the CIA | Comments closed