LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Three centuries, to get people to understand anything about anything
havin’ to do with money. An’ it is now demonstrated on the corpus vilis
of British reformers’ hopes that very little economic reform gets into
practice without precedent organizational and political measures of an
almost earth shaking nature. A curious phrase about “reconstruct
capitalist society” must belong to the translator. I don’t want to pin that
on Joseph, tho’ mebbe that was part of his muddle. I am far less
concerned with Joe’s lacunae than with a few clear positive statements.
Joe said he was aware that “a number of capitalist governments are
controlled by big banks,” notwithstanding the existence of “democratic”
parliaments.
Not bad for a Georgian assassin. And possibly several decades ahead of
the American public and professoriat. Not a single power in which the
Cabinet can be formed in opposition to the will of the big financial
magnates. I wonder: is that why they took Joe for a ride ?
“It is sufficient to exert financial pressure to cause Cabinet Ministers to
fall from their posts as if they were stunned.”
Joey was talkin’ of European cabinets; not of the so very different
American DEMocracy (as they call it) etc. where, unless there is
absolute surety that financial pressure won’t be used, the blighters
seldom or never get in. Joe SAID that the control of government by
money-bags is inconceivable and absolutely excluded in the U.S.S.R.
How different from the home life of our own DEMOCRACY (as they
call it), etc. and how different from anything any British politician has
ever encountered, and how different from any state of things that
Churchill’s group would desire.
“Narrow circle” said Joe of individuals connected in one way or another
with the large banks and because of that they strive to conceal the part
they play in this from the people.