--- title: 'Manifesto For The Abolition Of Interest Slavery" (1919) by Gottfried Feder' url: 'https://samisdat.in/blog/feder-interest-slavery' markdown: 'https://samisdat.in/blog/feder-interest-slavery.md' lang: en date: '2022-03-06' description: 'Gottfried Feder Manifesto For The Abolition Of Interest Slavery" (1919) Some notes from the pamphlet. Not the best formatting... "Manifesto For The Abolition Of Interest Slavery" (1919) by Gottfried Feder Mammonism "The abolition of enslavement to interest signifies the restoration of the fre…' taxonomy: category: - 'blog - books - money-power - usury - usurocracy - finance - politics - history' --- # [Manifesto For The Abolition Of Interest Slavery" (1919) by Gottfried Feder](https://samisdat.in/blog/feder-interest-slavery) 6th Mar 2022 # Gottfried Feder ## Manifesto For The Abolition Of Interest Slavery" (1919) Some notes from the pamphlet. Not the best formatting... - ["Manifesto For The Abolition Of Interest Slavery" (1919) by Gottfried Feder](https://archive.org/details/GottfriedFederManifestoForTheAbolitionOfInterestSlavery_201707) ![Image 7 - 7_978399595704307714.jpg](https://samisdat.in/images/9/a/5/7/6/9a5769cd5ed88c423f2874e5933a7882334c7218-978399595704307714-dzp5l5lw4aesrr7.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 8 - 8_978399595704307714.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978399595704307714-DZP5NbsXcAApaTc.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 9 - 9_978399595704307714.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978399595704307714-DZP5PEFX4AAhIQw.jpg?g-16018011) > Mammonism > "The abolition of enslavement to interest > signifies the restoration of the free > personality, the redemption of man from > slavery, from the curse whereby > Mammonism has bound his soul." ![Image 10 - 10_978441605379223553.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978441605379223553-DZQfcCVXUAIAMYn.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 11 - 11_978441605379223553.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978441605379223553-DZQfXL_WkAAYM_a.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 12 - 12_978441605379223553.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978441605379223553-DZQfYTSW0AEIiQO.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 13 - 13_978441605379223553.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978441605379223553-DZQfZ6vXUAAIpDt.jpg?g-16018011) > "The abolition of enslavement to interest gives us the possibility of pursuing the > repeal of all direct and indirect taxes." ![Image 14 - 14_978723713507119104.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978723713507119104-DZUf_vwXcAEsCcH.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 15 - 15_978723713507119104.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978723713507119104-DZUgBGlX0AU9WPh.jpg?g-16018011) > "The avalanche-like growth of loan- > capital surpasses all human capacity for > calculation, through eternal, endless, and > effortless income from interest, and from > interest on interest." > > "in Mammonistic blindness > we have unlearned how to see clearly the doctrine of the sanctity of > interest is a monstrous self-deception, > that the gospel of loan-interest that > alone makes one blessed has entangled > our entire thinking in the golden web of > international plutocracy. ![Image 16 - 16_978734916673441793.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978734916673441793-DZUqMDJX0AEyY7s.jpg?g-16018011) 1.) Rethinking what an investment really is. 2.) What happens when a process of endless investing and reinvesting occurs: 3.) And what if it is not taken care of: - - - > The myth of 'progress', 100 years and humanity has still not evolved enough to rid itself of - we're almost right back to where we were. ![Image 1 - 1_978815643628777477.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978815643628777477-DZVzgsGXUAACGMF.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 2 - 2_978815643628777477.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978815643628777477-DZVziuxX0AAR8Vt.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 3 - 3_978815643628777477.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978815643628777477-DZVzkMQWkAYLCyI.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 4 - 4_978815643628777477.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978815643628777477-DZVzmjiW4AE4k6C.jpg?g-16018011) > "For the sake of the interest principle, in keeping with a > thoroughly mad political delusion that > every kind of possession carries an > entitlement to earnings, we have > submitted to enslavement to interest on > money." ![Image 1 - 1_978818184265519104.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978818184265519104-DZV13AoX0AEsHuJ.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 2 - 2_978818184265519104.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978818184265519104-DZV14SDXcAAWpQs.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 3 - 3_978818184265519104.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978818184265519104-DZV15blXcAA4_Wz.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 4 - 4_978818184265519104.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978818184265519104-DZV17ikWAAInMBr.jpg?g-16018011) > "The most dangerous factor is > the enormous growth beyond > comprehension of big loan-capital > through interest and through interest on > interest. I must here digress a bit more > and hope through a small excursion into > higher mathematics to explain the > problem. First some examples." ![Image 5 - 5_978821651159797760.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978821651159797760-DZV4-hMX4AETW28.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 6 - 6_978821651159797760.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978821651159797760-DZV5AmXXUAALMK_.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 7 - 7_978821651159797760.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978821651159797760-DZV5CsWX0AUBsF6.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 8 - 8_978821651159797760.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978821651159797760-DZV5E4MWkAEUxQd.jpg?g-16018011) > "What significance does the growth of the Krupp fortune > during a century have compared to the > growth of the Rothschild fortune through > effortless and endless accretion from > interest and interest on interest?" ![Image 1 - 1_978823433827045376.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978823433827045376-DZV6q70XcAY7mlI.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 2 - 2_978823433827045376.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978823433827045376-DZV6skwWkAEZh18.jpg?g-16018011) > "We recognize clearly that not > the capitalistic economic order, not > capital in itself and as such, is the > scourge of humanity. The insatiable > interest-need of big loan-capital is the > curse of all laboring humanity! ... For what else is loan-capital, but debts?" ![Image 3 - 3_978826127887171584.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978826127887171584-DZV9G5lW4AAgmUO.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 4 - 4_978826127887171584.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978826127887171584-DZV9JHsWsAAFUIq.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 5 - 5_978826127887171584.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/978826127887171584-DZV9KUrWsAAry3N.jpg?g-16018011) > "It is now quite astonishing to see how > the socialist idea-world of Marx and > Engels, from the Communist Manifesto and even the current socialist > leaders... interest is the noli me tangere, > the “touchmenot.” ![Image 6 - 6_978827517313331200.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZV-ZwFWAAAmibl.jpg?g-16018011) > The commentary above lends credence to Miles Mathis research into both Marx and Engels as possible agents of The Money Power. (Also it's easier to understand why it's so difficult to get a decent English translation of this book.) > > In 2018 and is still a major issue of our time. > > "The > specter of state bankruptcy is really only > a fairytale and a bogeyman invented by > the Mammonist forces...On the > contrary a rapid revival of the national > economy and a recovery of public > finances have been observed often > enough." Russia mentioned here too. ![Image 2 - 2_979171331492204545.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979171331492204545-DZa3FENX0AEPtV3.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 3 - 3_979171331492204545.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979171331492204545-DZa3Gs0W0AE1TaB.jpg?g-16018011) > Also this century, let's not forget how Argentina defaulted and lived to tell the tale with a strong recovery after a terrible downfall. What Greece couldn't and still can't do. - ![Image 4 - 4_979173564959076353.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZa5J9OWAAEhyPL.jpg?g-16018011) > Not to downplay the economic collapse. Powerful documentary, Argentina's 2001 Financial Collapse. I visited in 2014-15 and it still had issues but people I met were generally positive. - > "I, the state, shall pay no more interest, > and you, the taxpayer, need not pay taxes > to cover these interest payments…we avoid the enormous tax-bureaucracy > and likewise the enormous interest- > paying bureaucracy, thus conserving an > immense quantity of money and work-potential.” ![Image 5 - 5_979176188638908416.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979176188638908416-DZa7ibLX4AEWu69.jpg?g-16018011) > "Whether interest-bearing war-bonds or > non-interest-bearing Reich banknotes, behind them stands only and solely the > tax-potential of the entire people – and > what is tax-potential other than a > function of the work-power of the total > working population?" ![Image 6 - 6_979179333184114699.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979179333184114699-DZa-V_WW4AAQkTv.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 7 - 7_979179333184114699.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979179333184114699-DZa-XzcWsAIuyuI.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 8 - 8_979179333184114699.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979179333184114699-DZa-ZAvWsAAADmh.jpg?g-16018011) > This is reflective of Margrit Kennedy's later emperical work on calculating the distribution of interest paid to interest earned. Pensioners would require income support via a welfare payment due to no more interest earned. ![Image 9 - 9_979183142526423041.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979183142526423041-DZbB1fQWsAE3EyJ.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 10 - 10_979183142526423041.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979183142526423041-DZbB28mWAAESsY_.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 11 - 11_979183142526423041.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979183142526423041-DZbBytxWsAACULO.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 12 - 12_979183142526423041.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979183142526423041-DZbBz5jX4AAp-h8.jpg?g-16018011) > "The abolition of interest-slavery for > mortgages means without a doubt the > solution of the housing problem, the > liberation from exorbitant rents...the abolition of enslavement to interest has not the > slightest thing to do with our total value-producing labor..." ![Image 13 - 13_979184255971586049.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979184255971586049-DZbC2XpXcAEr3Ov.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 14 - 14_979184255971586049.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979184255971586049-DZbC4D2X4AEE39i.jpg?g-16018011) > "We can tell how correctly the > fruitfulness of the interest-problem has > been recognized in the course of history...although under the canon law of the 11th > to 17th centuries the charging of interest > was forbidden to Christians, it was > permitted to Jews." ![Image 15 - 15_979185950583611392.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979185950583611392-DZbEUqUW0AIw57f.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 16 - 16_979185950583611392.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979185950583611392-DZbEV-eXUAI-OwP.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 17 - 17_979185950583611392.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979185950583611392-DZbEXqqX4AUaqDm.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 18 - 18_979185950583611392.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979185950583611392-DZbEZaeWsAAFrLo.jpg?g-16018011) > "In addition it ought to be considered that > broad stretches of the Earth have only in > the modern age gone over from natural > economy to money-economy... caused > money to turn into the demonic power of > such universal coercion that we have > come to know." ![Image 19 - 19_979187760320958464.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979187760320958464-DZbGBM_WAAAFoNw.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 20 - 20_979187760320958464.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979187760320958464-DZbGC3FXkAAMZCG.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 21 - 21_979187760320958464.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979187760320958464-DZbGEAkWkAAfIJK.jpg?g-16018011) > "...the abolition of > enslavement to interest on money must > come, as the only way out of the > threatening economic enslavement of > the entire world, as one of the ways to > drive out the poison of Mammonism > with its corruption and contamination > of the mentality of our age." ![Image 22 - 22_979188976249696256.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979188976249696256-DZbHKVIXUAAhvhi.jpg?g-16018011) > What happens when you vote in a neoliberal government again who brings back in the IMF and implement "structural reforms" > > "Clearly there was much more to > the ideology and practices of National-Socialist Germany than the History Channel or > even most "history" books provide. Modern > governments have taken much from Nazi > Germany ." ![Image 23 - 23_979761604379250689.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979761604379250689-DZjP4iZX0AAx8h_.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 24 - 24_979761604379250689.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979761604379250689-DZjP7cOWkAA11jH.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 25 - 25_979761604379250689.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/979761604379250689-DZjP19bWAAANhUO.jpg?g-16018011) > Gottfried Feder words on the Marxist-Communism-Socialism slogan "All things belong to all men!" asks someone to look deep inside their heart and soul. ![Image 26 - 26_979768085375868928.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZjVvuYXcAAkMyW.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 27 - 27_979768085375868928.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZjVyfiWsAAtiSK.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 28 - 28_979768085375868928.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZjVz3NXUAUErI-.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 29 - 29_979768085375868928.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZjV2j2X4AEr-in.jpg?g-16018011) > Gottfried Feder words on the Marxist-Communism-Socialism: "...every idea... exaggerated to the extreme becomes madness in the end, and then it changes into its opposite.... contemplate whether the Communist message... would not necessarily mean the end of every culture..." ![Image 30 - 30_979770610111803393.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZjYGiSW0AEtLtz.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 31 - 31_979770610111803393.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZjYIbkWkAIJ9ew.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 32 - 32_979770610111803393.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/feder-interest-slavery/DZjYKPNXUAIewgQ.jpg?g-16018011) --- ## Navigation - Parent: [Blog](https://samisdat.in/blog.md) - Previous: [Falsehood in War Time](https://samisdat.in/blog/falsehood-in-wartime.md) - Next: [Fiat Money Inflation In France](https://samisdat.in/blog/2017-10-27-fiat-money-inflation-france.md)