Clifford Hugh DOUGLAS

Shortly before his death, over fifty years ago, Clifford Hugh Douglas surveyed the landscape near Aberfeldy in Scotland, turned to a close colleague and said:
“You know, T.J., I think the time is approaching when we shall have to challenge this monstrous and fantastic overgrowth of industrial expansion – fundamentally. Really, you know, I personally can see nothing particularly sinful about a small dynamo; but this thing we’ve got is past a joke. If it isn’t a joke, it is Satanic.”

CONTENTS

1. C H Douglas- Background to his life and work

2. 'The Douglas Manual' by Philip Mairet- an introduction to Douglas' new economic principles for the general reader

3. Writings of C H Douglas

4. Further reading

5. Background to Douglas' philosophy

6. Douglas' Evidence to the Canadian House of Commons Select Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce, 1923

7. Audio transcript of Douglas' philosophy on the causes of war

 

 

Writing by C.H. Douglas

Douglas' Earliest Articles

The English Review, (December 1918)
The Delusion of Super-Production
C. H Douglas

'It is hardly necessary to draw attention to the insistence with which we are told that in order to pay for the war we must produce more manufactured goods than ever before...'

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The English Review, XXVIII (1919): 49-58
The Pyramid of Power
C. H. Douglas

'At various well-defined epochs in the history of civilisation there has occurred such a clash of apparently irreconcilable ideas as has at this time most definitely come upon us.....[there] is a clear indication that a general re-arrangement is imminent...'

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The English Review, XXIV (1919): 166-69
What is Capitalism?
C.H. Douglas

'When two opposing forces of sufficient magnitude push transversely at either end of a plank--or problem--it revolves: there is Revolution...'

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The English Review, XXVIII (1919): 368-70
Exchange and Exports
C.H. Douglas

'In the welter of economic propoganda served up to us, like the powder in the jam, with our morning and evening prize-fight , murder and motor-bandit thrills, and labelled the news...a certain group of features recur and are inter-connected...'

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The New Age, No. 1373, XXIV, No. 9 (1919)
A Mechanical View of Economics
C. H. Douglas

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The New Age, (June 1920) 4305 words

These Present Discontents

C. H. Douglas

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The New Age, (22/29 January 1925)

A + B and the Bankers

C. H. Douglas

"Whatever may be the case on other matters, compromise in arithmetic seems singularly out of place." Read more

The Fig Tree Vol 2 (1936):139-147

Money: An Historical Survey

C. H. Douglas

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Social Credit (1936) 4 pages

Tyranny: Taxation System

C H Douglas

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Books and poems by C.H. Douglas

'Credit, Power and Democracy'- Part1, Part2, Part3, published in 1920 by the Social Credit Press

'Social Credit' , published in 1924 by Eyre & Spottiswoode

'The New and Old Economics', 1932, published by Tidal Publications, Sydney.

'The Big Idea', 1942, published by Veritas, Western Australia.

Poem printed in the Glasgow Evening Times in 1935

 

Further Reading

First Interim Report on the Possibilities of the Application of Social Credit to the Province of Alberta, Canada

This report, submitted by Major Douglas to His Majesty's Premier and Legislative Council of Alberta in 1935, also includes the correspondance which followed the report, between Douglas and the Premier and also the Attorney General

Speech by Major Douglas to the Council, 4th October 1933

alternative version

The Tragedy of Human Effort, (Notes for the address Douglas delivered at the Central Hall, Liverpool, October 30th, 1936)

Money: An Historical Survey "The Fig Tree" Vol 2 September 1936 Pages 139-147 3425 words (Notes for Major Douglas’s speech on July 26 at the Social Credit study course for Conservatives at the Bonar Law College, Ashridge)

'The Birmingham Debate,' a major debate between Mr. R. G. Hawtrey and Major Douglas on Douglas' Social Credit versus orthodox economics, was published in its entirety in the April edition of "The New Age" of 1933.

Major Douglas before the New Zealand Government Monetary Committee, correspondance and notes of evidence, 1934, 32 pages.

 

'The Douglas Manual' by Philip Mairet- an introduction to Douglas' new economic principles for the general reader

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Introduction, foreword and contents

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

 

AUDIO & TRANSCRIPTION

Listen to Douglas outlining his philosophy on war and its causes

Audio: C.H Douglas - "The Causes of War"

 

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