CHARLES BEREZIN
Everyone who acts in the transportation of the article from mother
earth to the eater (eye of beholder, hand of user).
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The
"entrepreneur"
or industrialist is a productive person, not so the
financier:
A certain part of the credit slips received by the
.entrepreneurs
was
wormed down a sort of tube.... And nothing was done against this
amount of credit taken in from the public and hidden.
It
flowed
continually down into the ground, down into somebody's pocket.
... Manifestly we have seen companies building new plants out of
·profits'. Manifestly we have seen crises.
Here, financiers, the ones who "take in credit from the public," are
pictured as hatching dark and mysterious plots to "worm" money
away from the virtuous
"entrepreneurs."
Bankers and financiers create
money from "paper paradoxes" that do not represent anything actually
made. When Pound blames the trickery and plot-hatching of financiers
for "companies building new plants out of 'profits,''' instead of
circulating those profits, he blames finance for capital's need to
expand. Similarly, he blames finance for economic crises. Although
Pound pointed out in many cases that not all those responsible for
financial trickery are Jews, the anti-Semitic style predominates as those
non-Jews become "non-Jewish Kikes."
Pound's analysis is close in style
to
that of the
Dearborn Indepen–
dent.
The following is that journal's analysis of how the Jews have
affected the other flank of the fascist's enemies, the working class:
Now, previous to the advent of Jewish socialistic and subversive
ideas, the predominant thought in the labor world was to "make"
things and thus "make" money. There was a pride among mechan–
ics. Men who made things were a sturdy, honest race because they
dealt with ideas of skill and quality, and their very characters were
formed by the satisfaction of having performed useful functions in
society.... The only way to break down this strong safeguard of
society-a laboring class of sturdy character-was to sow other ideas
among it and the most dangerous of all the ideas sown was that
which substituted "get" for "make. " With the required manipula–
tion of the money and food markets, enough pressure could be
brought to bear on the ultimate consumers to give point to the idea
of "get," and it was not long before the internal relations of
American business were totally upset, with Jews at the head of the
banking system, and Jews at the head of both the conservative and
radical elements of the Labor Movement, AND, most potent of all,
the Jewish Idea sowed through the minds of workingmen. What
Idea? The old idea of "get" instead of "make."
