Ezra Pound

America, Roosevelt and the Causes of the Present War (1994)

Selected Quotes

The historical process has been understood at various times, but this understanding on the part of a diligent minority fighting for the public good is again and again thrust down beneath the surface. In 1878 my grandfather said the same things that I’m...

John T. Flynn

Graft in Business (1931)

From the Foreword

This book is addressed not to citizens but to people; not to government but to society; not to lawmakers but to businessmen. It is not an indictment; it is a remonstrance. It is not an assault by a foe; but the warning of a friend. It deals with a phase of business which is, in some m...

R. H. Tawney

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - A Historical Study (1922)

Originally published in 1922. From The Holland Memorial Lectures.

From the PREFATORY NOTE

THE friends of the late Henry Scott Holland founded a lectureship in his memory, the Deed of Foundation laying it down that a course of lectures, to be called the Holland M...

L. B. Woolfolk

Great Red Dragon, or London Money Power (1890)

Preface

THIS work is divided into three parts:‐

PART I gives a History of the Rise of the London Money Power.

PART II proves that this Imperialism of Capital,‐ the London Money Power,‐is foretold in prophecy, under the symbol of the Great Red Dragon.

PART III gives the Reme...

Frank Anstey

The Money Power (1921)

"The Oligarchy of Finance possesses more wealth, more power, more control over the destinies of the human race than any class or caste ever possessed" —T. Quelch.

From The Introduction

In 1916 I wrote a series of articles on banking, currency, and "war loan" trickeries. Those articles were rigorousl...