LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Brown. They will have no effect upon those of you who are given over
to the comforting (comforting if it comforts you) theory that devastation
just doesn’t matter and to whom.
Shakespeare and Bach are a bore. Architecture is dangerous. Sculpture is
taboo. Mr. Brown wants a bright new world; and debt is after all only the
prelude to slavery. One can conceive a regime in which there is NO
economic liberty. I mean absolutely NO economic liberty for anyone.
Not by accident, but by program. It is much easier, in fact, to conceive a
slave state than a free state. A state wherein all men are slaves, and no
man has any right whatsoever to life, liberty, and where even the pursuit
—marvelous phrase that “pursuit” of happiness—would be illegal, or at
least regarded as a grave misdemeanor.
A really severe Puritan like Eden or Morgenthau would probably tell you
that the pursuit of happiness is on a level with chippy-chasing. I know
you don’t THINK you are ripe for a real revolution. You don’t think
YOU are ripe for the end of the capitalist system altogether. You would
rather such revolutions occurred in the Punjab or in Bessarabia. But one
thing leads to another.
And yet, Civilization was not yours to destroy.
#81 (May2, 1943) U.K.(C36)
ON THE NATURE OF TREACHERY
I should like tonight to get a little serious attention, yours, to a serious
subject, or to several serious matters. I have in fact been trying for over
20 years to get a little serious attention; persuade you to direct a little
serious attention to a few serious subjects. Nature of money, and mode
of its issue, and usury. Before that and during the interim I have perhaps
been more successful in drawing attention to a few literary problems,
and authors. As to my remarks on economics, my methods have been
such as were possible. Nobody ever suggested that I should improve