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
5. Background to Douglas' philosophy
7. Audio transcript of Douglas' philosophy on the causes of war
Writing by C.H. Douglas
Douglas' Earliest Articles
The Delusion of Super-Production
C. H Douglas, The English Review, (December 1918)
'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...' Read more
The Pyramid of Power
C. H. Douglas, The English Review, XXVIII (1919): 49-58
'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...' Read more
What is Capitalism?
C.H. Douglas, The English Review, XXIV (1919): 166-69
'When two opposing forces of sufficient magnitude push transversely at either end of a plank--or problem--it revolves: there is Revolution...' Read more
Exchange and Exports
C.H. Douglas, The English Review, XXVIII (1919): 368-70
'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...' Read more
A Mechanical View of Economics
C. H. Douglas, The New Age, No. 1373, XXIV, No. 9 (1919)
These Present Discontents
C. H. Douglas, The New Age, (June 1920) 4305 words
A + B and the Bankers
C. H. Douglas, The New Age, (22/29 January 1925)
"Whatever may be the case on other matters, compromise in arithmetic seems singularly out of place." Read more
Money and the Price System
C. H Douglas
A Speech delivered at Oslo on February 14, 1935...
"Now there is, of course, in the world a good deal of discussion in
regard to what we shall call the crisis, matters of unemployment,
the economic depression and other names we give to our present
state of affairs..." Read more
Money: An Historical Survey
C. H. Douglas, The Fig Tree Vol 2 (1936):139-147
Tyranny: Taxation System
C H Douglas, Social Credit (1936) 4 pages
Books 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.
Further Reading
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
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
Please click on the links below to download the above book section by section.
Introduction, foreword and contents
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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