LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

It is my considered opinion that the Canute Club, alias the BBC’s Brain
Trust, has not produced anything up to the level of Caedmon’s Dream of
the Road. Visionaries in retrospect, but placing their past in an
unattainable future; I do not think the Continent attends to their gentle
murmur. It needs a peculiar sense of the ridiculous, which I don’t find
here in Italy. Old buffers of my day, something of the period. Waverley
novels, and divorce from reality. It takes so long to explain it to a non-
English audience. All this pretense of free discussion with ALL the real
issues barred.
Freedom to stay out of debt, for example. Imagine Masaryk and Doc
Joad on THAT issue. Even if the more-enlightened load HAS got round
to wondering how you would install a world bureaucrat without
admitting at least a FEW of the indigenese of the European continent,
for example. Now in 1919 England had a choice of curing one or the
other of TWO economic diseases. Douglas having had practical
experience, having a sense of justice, but no faith in the goodness of
man, tried to cure possibly the lesser disease. At any rate the one with
less popular appeal. He hit out against the swindle inherent in issuing all,
or practically all the public’s purchase power as interest-paying debt.
That, as I think he saw it, would have allowed speculation to go on,
would have needed if not a minimal of bureaucratic control, at least less,
than guild socialism coordinated into a national central. He was probably
out in his calculation, as he did not produce very detailed blueprints of
HOW to control prices, toward the JUST price.
Hitler went to a deeper root with his “a great deal [of] purchasing power
goes for something OTHER than labor, construction labor.” All of which
now sounds pretty mild. The irrealists go on murmuring and the tide of
Moscovite chaos rises. It becomes more and more evident that the old
gang in Britain does NOT want ANY social amelioration whatever. And
in that position, I think they tend to overplay their hand.