LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

of whom have moved their chief offices right over to Wall St., that is, to
the new ghetto. Debt is the prelude to slavery. And neither Baruch,
Lehman, nor any of their British bootlickers and servants says a word
about freedom from debt. Or the freedom to keep OUT of debt. It is nine
years since Jeffrey Mark published The Modern Idolatry.
Interest payments due on Western capital have been made possible by
the creation of slavery conditions in Western countries.
In the past the progressive accumulation of debt claims has brought
about the ruin of civilizations as single units. Nearly all the creations of
the nineteenth century capitalists such as, for instance, the power loom
cotton industry of Lancashire, have been broken by usury.
Forty years ago it was the habit to make much of Shakespeare and the
styge [stage]: by people who seem never to have thought about the text,
the meaning of the words used by Henry Irving and other darlings of the
theatre public.
The daughter and ducats theme is familiar to many who have not
meditated [on] the six lines that Mark uses to introduce the third part of
his volume:
I hate him for he is a Christian,
But more for that in low simplicity
He lends out money gratis and brings down
The rate of usance here in Venice.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
I strongly suspect these lines have been omitted in more than one Jewish
performance of Shylock. There is something too near to nature,
something too pertinent: “Brings down the rate of usance.”