Here’s an excerpt from a thread which has the entire booklet “The Revolution Was” - written in 1938 and talking about the new deal. The excerpt (well - the whole thing really) could have been written 71 years later!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Excertps:
And so the first problem was solved. The seat of government was captured by ballot, according to law.
PROBLEM TWO
TO SEIZE ECONOMIC POWER
This was the critical problem. The brilliant solution of it will doubtless make a classic chapter in the textbooks of revolutionary technic. In a highly evolved money economy, such as this one, the shortest and surest road. to economic power would be what? It would be control of money, banking, and credit. The New Deal knew that answer. It knew also the steps and how to take them, and above all, it knew its opportunity.
It arrived at the seat of government in the midst of that well known phenomenon called a banking crisis.....
It is true that people wanted action. It is true that they were in a mood to accept any pain-killer.... and the President took advantage of it to make the first startling exposition of New Deal philosophy.....
But what it [emergency] meant to the President, as nobody then knew, was a very different thing. Writing a year later, in his book, On Our Way, he said: “Strictly speaking, the banking crisis lasted only one week.... But the full meaning of that word emergency related to far more than banks... It could be cured only by a complete reorganization and measured control of the economic structure....It called for a long series of new laws, new administrative agencies. It required separate measures affecting different subjects; but all of them component parts of a fairly definite broad plan.” [End of FDR quotes!]
And therein lay the meaning the only consistent meaning of a series of acts touching money, banking and credit which, debated as monetary policy, made no sense whatever.
.....that made everything legal after the fact: and it was the first use of Congress as a rubber stamp..... Congress did not write any of these acts. It received them from the White House and passed them.
OMG_that link is from 2003??? And the author is discussing 1938?????? This is uncanny. Frightening.
QUOTE:
Now given (1) the opportunity, (2) a country whose fabulous wealth was in the modern forms dynamic, functional, non-portable, (3) a people so politically naive as to have passed a law against any attempt to overthrow their government by force and, (4) the intention to bring about what Aristotle called a revolution in the state, within the frame of existing law Then from the point of view of scientific revolutionary technic what would the problems be?
They set themselves down in sequence as follows:
The first, naturally, would be to capture the seat of government.
The second would be to seize economic power.
The third would be to mobilize by propaganda the forces of hatred.
The fourth would he to reconcile and then attach to the revolution the two great classes whose adherence is indispensable but whose interests are economically antagonistic, namely, the industrial wage earners and the farmers, called in Europe workers and peasants.
The fifth would be what to do with business whether to liquidate or shackle it.
(These five would have a certain imperative order in time and require immediate decisions because they belong to the program of conquest. That would not be the end. What would then ensue? A program of consolidation. Under that head the problems continue.)
The sixth, in Burckhardt’s devastating phrase, would be “the domestication of individuality” by any means that would make the individual more dependent upon government.
The seventh would be the systematic reduction of all forms of rival authority.
The eighth would be to sustain popular faith in an unlimited public debt, for if that faith should break the government would be unable to borrow, if it could not borrow it could not spend, and the revolution must be able to borrow and spend the wealth of the rich or else it will be bankrupt.
The ninth would be to make the government itself the great capitalist and enterpriser, so that the ultimate power in initiative would pass from the hands of private enterprise to the all-powerful state.
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