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Wednesday, August 19. 2009

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The New Deal was a genuine revolution, whose deepest purpose was not simply reform within existing traditions, but a basic change in the social, and, above all, the power relationships within the nation. It was not a revolution by violence. It was a revolution by bookkeeping and lawmaking. In so far as it was successful, the power of politics had replaced the power of business. This is the basic power shift of all the revolutions of our time. This shift was the revolution.


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Whittaker Chambers (h/t, Dr. Bob, who has a piece up about the Hemlock Society - which has changed its name)

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Check out also John Gall's Systemantics (or its successors), the chapter "Administrative Encirclement."

Wherein the people in charge of ordering pencils and pads for the research department take charge by requiring everybody to submit their goals and objectives.
#1 rhhardin (Link) on 2009-08-19 11:04 (Reply)
The New Deal was liberal power grab enabled by a crisis. Once they have power, they never ever let it go.

The fact that their heavy-handed tactics deepened and extended the Depression is irrelevant to them.
#2 NJSoldier on 2009-08-19 11:46 (Reply)
I'm with you, NJSoldier. It is sad but true that America didn't actually begin to recover from the New Deal until the beginning of World War II, when we started to manufacture great amounts of war materiel for the battles that had begun even before we got into the fight.

If the free enterprise system had been allowed to function freely toward the end of the Depression, without the busy little fingers of the liberal government tweaking away, the recovery would have proceeded much more briskly. In the ensuing years, we have forgotten the lessons of free enterprise. Now we'll have to learn them all over again.

If our health allows us to.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2009-08-19 12:21 (Reply)

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