| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Re: productive capacity--Rawson | | Date: | Sunday, August 7, 2005 11:14:14 (-0700) | | From: | Joe Thomson <thomsonhiyu @....ca>
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(John Rawson wrote:-) > "...some of our extremists latch on to this sort of
> thing out of context and embarrass the rest of us by
> making outlandish claims, such as abolishing all
> taxation even in the modern economy."
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(Bill Ryan replies:-) > This sort of thing? First of all, in the excerpts
> there's not even a single word about taxation.
(Joe comments:-) Bill, I think John is concerned that the credibility of
the "NZ Democrats for Social Credit" might be damaged if some of their
candidates or supporters started preaching to the public that goods could be
sold at retail for 75%, or whatever, less than 'cost' without properly being
able to explain what Douglas was really getting at. That they may take that
passage, and some other passages of Douglas's regarding 'taxation' found
elsewhere in his writings, out of context.
It's a valid concern. It would be easy to do, as it is easy to do in
regards to many other things that Douglas wrote. (Including 'interest' ~ a
sin I've been guilty of myself in the past.)
You, yourself, as I recall, once expressed some incredulity that goods
could be offered at such a discount.
The difference is, we on here are all in the process of 'learning' what
Douglas was trying to teach us. Or should be. We may go down many paths
from which we have to retreat in that process. But those preaching 'Social
Credit' POLITICALLY, 'as Douglas said it', (or THEY think he did), in an
effort to win elected office, can not so easily retract their revealed
'knowledge'. And often wouldn't, for sake of ego, even if proven wrong.
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(Bill Ryan continues:-) > What is outlandish about the inferred presumption
that
> the world is currently consuming only twenty-five
> percent of its technical productive capacity at the
> current level of technology abstracted from its
> political and/or economic technology?
(Joe replies:-) Explained fully, there is nothing outlandish about it at
all. But how many stop to consider the vast extent of that which Douglas
broadly called 'sabotage'? The 'making of work' for purposes other than
that for which it is physically necessary?
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