Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:03:17 -0400
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: Marxist Information for Militia Members


At 9:01 PM 2/29/96, Hans Ehrbar wrote:

>A book "The Truth in Money Book" by Theodore R. Thoren and Richard
>F. Warner seems to take off from there.  It looks like an economics
>text book.  It claims that certain changes in the US monetary system
>would reduce taxes, drop interest rates, increase employment, stop
>inflation, you name it.
>
>It is clearly absurd stuff.  Nevertheless, people who read and believe
>this have a sense that someone is taking advantage of them, and have a
>deep mistrust in government and the mainstream media, which are
>correct perceptions.  Is there any left literature which I can give
>this person to read, something which patiently explains to them, yes,
>someone is exploiting you, but it is not the international jews but it
>is the capitalist employers, and yes, your mistrust in the government
>is justified, but they do it not so much through conspiracies and
>manipulations of the monetary system, which is only the surface of it
>all, it is a much deeper systemic issue, and the government is right
>there making sure this system keeps functioning.  I do not mean to
>give them generalities, but carefully point for point disentangle the
>disinformation which is being inflicted on them.

Unfortuantely there's nothing like this that I know of, though I try to do
something like it with my newsletter. (The economics columnist for The
Spotlight subscribes to LBO and claims to like it.) Unfortunately too, too
many "Marxists" are too busy hashing over pointless doctrinal disputes and
picking over some great betrayal in a provincial Brazilian city in 1957 to
notice that the US working class, broadly defined, is more receptive to a
radical message than at any time since before World War II.

Doug

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