But Teddy made the mistake of forgetting stealth … and as a result, he scared the public and lost the election to Wilson, who campaigned as a moderate. But in reality, Wilson was another closet Fabian. He was the back up plan and proof that Wilson was a Fabian comes in many forms. First and foremost is the fact that Wilson surrounded himself Fabians. Some came out of the ISS. His closest adviser, Edward M. House, however, did not, but while House was not an admitted Fabian, he spent much of his childhood and adult life in Britain, likely surrounded by them. And in 1912, he wrote a book titled “Philip Dru: Administrator”, whose contents certainly make him a Fabian.
After writing the book, he insinuated himself into Wilson’s inner circle, writing in his diary, “I began with him before he became President and I have never relaxed my efforts.” He quickly became Wilson's closest friend. Wilson said “I never met a man whose thoughts ran so identically with mine." In a letter to his brother-in-law, House wrote, "It is just such a chance as I have always wanted, for never before have I found both the man and the opportunity."
The opportunity House spoke of was to enact the vision for America that he described in his book … a *fictional* plan for the conquest of America by gaining control of both the Republican and Democratic parties, and then using them to create a socialist world government. The plan included a graduated federal income tax, a central bank, a social security program, an inheritance tax, and it suggested taking functions away from the states … all things the Fabians wanted.
The book even suggested a conspiracy "insinuated into the primaries, in order that no candidate might be nominated whose views were not in accord with theirs." Plus, the book’s central character, Dru, said “Our Constitution and our laws served us well for the first hundred years of our existence, but under the conditions of today they are not only obsolete, but even grotesque.” All this sounds like the views and strategy of the UNIPARTY today, doesn’t it?
Guided or even managed by House, Wilson quickly proceeded to enact several of the changes that Fabians desired. It happened so quickly that American historian, Arthur Howden Smith, wrote "In nine months the Wilson administration completely reorganized the financial structure in accordance with the conceptions outlined in 'Philip Dru.’" First was a progressive income tax.
Congress had passed an income tax in 1894 targeting only the top 2 percent of wealth holders and the Supreme Court (SC) had declared it unconstitutional. Democrat SC Justice Stephen Field, however, predicted that a small progressive tax “will be but the stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.”
When Wilson signed the first progressive income tax into law and the courts ruled it constitutional, Fabians must have been ecstatic. War between rich and poor was what they needed, and over the years they got it, more and more, as government at all levels began to take more and more and more. Till we ended up in the situation we are today.
In 1913, Wilson/House also created the Federal Reserve System, handing the government unprecedented control over the monetary system. This was a top Fabian wish list item. Of course they made sure to fill the top position with a Fabian, George Foster Peabody, who wrote "I have always been most sympathetic to individual Socialist aspirations. I have particularly observed the Fabian System of England with hopeful anticipations.”
When WWI started, Wilson proclaimed the US would remain neutral. But when the Lusitania was sunk in May 1915, House advised Wilson that Americans could “no longer remain neutral spectators”. Wilson’s Secretary Of State, William Bryan, refused to abandon neutrality so when Wilson sent an official message of protest to Germany, Bryan resigned, to be replaced by Robert Lansing. The joke in Washington was “how do you spell Lansing? H. O. U. S. E.”
In early 1916, House told the French foreign minister that US entering the war on the side of the allies was inevitable … they just needed an incident that would cause Americans to support doing that. Yet, in the 1916 election, guided by House, Wilson ran for reelection on the slogan “He kept us out of war”. Remember, a kept tactic of Fabians is deception.
Shortly after the new term began, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war. House confided in his diary that he had “stirred [Wilson’s] ambition to become the great liberal leader of the world.” What better way than to enter and win a war. With the US involved, the allies were likely to win, so Wilson and House began planning the postwar world. House’s big dream was a World Communist Government, so it’s no surprise that he was a key figure in the opportunity the war created to create a League of Nations.
Wilson asked House to assemble a group of experts to develop what would become the basis for Wilson’s Fourteen Points. House was probably the major contributor. When Wilson presented his fourteen points at Versailles, they called for a "league of nations to ensure peace and justice”. The Germans agreed to an Armistice and Wilson returned to the US, leaving House to work out the details. The Germans signed the treaty but the Senate then rejected it (Senator Henry Cabot Lodge didn’t like the fact the League could force the US to enter a war without Congressional approval). The Senator warned, speaking of the US, “if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence.” With thoughts of Ukraine, how prophetic!
Because of the failure, House and Wilson had a falling out, never to met again after Wilson left Paris. House remained for further negotiations. When the US didn’t join the League, a British group called the Round Table, funded by the Rhodes Trust, both of them Fabian connected, sought to encourage its own web of interdependency with the US. In other words, British Fabians again had a back up plan. US diplomats (including House) and British diplomats met in Paris. The most important attendee was said to be Lionel Curtis (https://www.chathamhouse.org/2019/05/hotel-majestic-and-origins-chatham-house). It was Curtis who devised the framework of the Fabian associated Rhodes Round Table. He was educated at Fabian associated New College, Oxford. He was probably a closet Fabian Socialist as well. More evidence of that is that he joined the League of Free Nations Association that was founded by Fabian Socialist HG Wells. In 1918, that association joined with another group, the League of Nations Society, also dominated by Fabians (such a Leonard Woolf).
Now at the Paris meeting, it was decided to create a British/American organization called "The Institute of International Affairs", which would have offices in London and New York. But they encountered difficulty getting it started so, instead, they joined a set of meetings which had been ongoing since June 1918 in New York City, under the name … now get this … the “Council on Foreign Relations" (CFR). See Fabian Socialists pop up at every turn?
Another good and well written article. I didn’t know that about LBJ! Now while I hope you are right, I’m not as certain that we can win this just because we have phones and the internet and a citizen army of *journalists*. Because access to them can be controlled, as China has amply demonstrated. Plus, there there is still one extremely significant fact that most Americans, even with phones and the internet, still know little or nothing about. You mentioned Woodrow Wilson, FDR, the Kennedys, LBJ, and the Clintons. What do they all have in common besides being democRATS? The answer is ties to Fabian Socialism.
While none of them were/are openly Fabian Socialists, each has been heavily influenced by them. Each has many close associates who are admitted Fabians or close to them. Yet, if you ask the vast majority of Americans to tell you what Fabian Socialism is, how it began, what it’s goals are, and the impact it’s had on America over the years, they will have a blank expression. Most may not even have heard have it (it’s not taught in our schools) and whatever those that have heard of it think they know is probably wrong because it came from the controlled media. For the most part, Americans have been kept in the dark about it.
Consider the Encylopedia Britannica. Its article on Fabian Socialism is less than 400 words long, compared to the 10,000 words devoted to Marxism, even though Fabian Socialism has arguably had a much greater influence on the US and West than Marxism. Britannica doesn't mention the Fabian Society’s communist roots (it was started by Marxists who disagreed only in how to spread Marxism). It doesn't mention its infiltration of American politics, starting in the late 1890s when Society Co-Founder Sidney Webb toured the US spreading the *gospel* according to Fabians. His visit and the work of other Fabians soon led to the founding of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which started chapters at many US universities. In 1914, the Harvard Chapter was officially renamed the Fabian Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and many important Americas were ISS members.
The Fabian goal, in the words of Edward Pease another Co-Founder, was the “reorganization of Society by the emancipation of Land and Industrial Capital from individuals and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit.” Meaning that they planned to confiscate and steal the people’s assets and redistribute them just like Marxist communists said they’d do. Only they would do it gradually and stealthily. Fabians envisioned a top down, mostly peaceful, revolution, in contrast to Marx’s bottom up violent revolution. They planned to infiltrate the top ranks of the organizations that control societies (government, media, business, etc) and then steer them, stealthily, towards their communist controlled utopia. Such an approach wouldn’t take many followers and wouldn’t have to motivate the masses … just keep them unaware and gradually make them comfortable with living under a socialist/communist dictatorship.
Just to illustrate how quickly Fabian Socialist thinking infiltrated American politics, consider Teddy Roosevelt (not mentioned in your article). Most conservatives still idolize Teddy. They don’t realize that he was a closet Fabian. They’re stuck on the fact he was a Republican for a while. But he may have been the first RINO. He was visited by Sidney and Beatrice Webb in the 1890s, before joining the Republican Party. And once he became President, he quickly tried to move the GOP toward progressivism … which is what many Fabians were stealthily calling their own movement at the time.
One wonders if Teddy joining the Republican Party wasn’t a Fabian plot, because by 1907, Teddy was already proposing such radical reforms that they were being blocked by Republicans. He called for all sort of things that the Fabian Society had wanted … a strong central government to regulate industry, national health and social insurance, an inheritance tax, and a Federal income tax. That caused him to split with them and in 1912 launch his Progressive Party, with himself as their presidential candidate.
By then, Teddy wasn’t even trying to hide his Fabian thinking. In fact, in his 1913 autobiography there's an appendix titled "Social and Industrial Justice" in which he compliments a hardcore Socialist, Vladimir Simkhovitch, who distinguished between revolutionary Marxism and another socialism … one that would get to that beautiful world that socialists envision, not by revolution, but by gradual change … in other words, by exactly the means Fabian Socialists advocated. Teddy’s Progressive Party platform was so far to the left that the New York Times called Teddy a "Super Socialist” (i.e., communist)!
The same story plays out during FDR’s administration. FDR not only attended Harvard about the time the Fabians opened up an ISS chapter, he brought numerous Fabians into his inner circle and administration. In fact, his vaunted Brain Trust, which supposedly guided him in planning the New Deal and other policies, included many ISS Fabians, among them Rexford Guy Tugwell, Stuart Chase, Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, Roger Baldwin, and Harold J. Laski.
Tugwell, a Columbia economics professor, had toured the USSR in 1927 with Chase, returning to speak of the glories of socialism. He became known as “Rex the Red”. He saw the USSR as America’s future, saying "There is no denying that the contemporary situation in the United States has explosive possibilities. The future is becoming visible in Russia.” “Regarding that future,” he said, “The first series of changes will have to do with statutes, with constitutions, and with government. It will require the laying of rough, unholy hands on many a sacred precedent, doubtless calling for an enlarged and nationalized police power for enforcement.” “Planning will necessarily become a function of the federal government; either that or the planning agency will supersede that government. ... It has already been suggested that business will logically be required to disappear. This is not an overstatement for the sake of emphasis; it is literally meant."
Tugswell was one an influential Brain Trust members. He helped design The New Deal’s farm program and the resettlement administration. But the other Brain Trust Fabians were just as important and extreme. Chase, for example, wrote several books that tell us a lot about what Fabians planned and why they were doing it. His first book, published in 1931, was titled "A New Deal”. That date proves that Lipmann lied when he said the New Deal was “wholly improvised after Roosevelt was elected.” In it, Chase wrote “The sixteen methods of becoming wealthy would be proscribed - by firing squad if necessary - ceasing to plague the orderly process of production and distribution.”
Chase’s second book, “The Road We Are Traveling", written in 1942 while Chase worked in the New Deal administration, is even more interesting. Here’s a link to it: https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf . The subtitle of the book is “Guide Lines to America’s future” and it’s noteworthy that Obama’s 2012 campaign video was titled “The Road We’ve Traveled”, suggesting he read it.
The book is a celebration of the Fabian plan to convert America’s free enterprise economy into what Chase called Political System “X”. Chase listed 18 characteristics for “X”. 1 Strong, central government, 2 Executive branch dominates legislative and judicial branches, 3 Government control of the financial sector, 4 Employment underwritten (through armaments or public works), 5 Social security, 6 Food, housing, and medical care underwritten by government, 7 Deficit spending to finance these underwritings, 8 Abandonment of the gold standard, and 9 Government control of foreign trade, 10 Control of natural resources, 11 Control of energy, 12 Control of transportation, 13 Control of agriculture, 14 Control of labor, 15 A youth corps with an ideology consistent with authorities, 16 Heavy taxation, with emphasis on estates and the income of the rich, 17 Control of industry without ownership, 18 Control of communications and propaganda. That list is very similar to the one in the Communist Manifesto. No coincidence.
After introducing the notion of “X”, there’s a chapter titled “Goals For America.” In it, Chase says the first goal should be “to satisfy the needs and desires of the common people” then says the answer to that goal is life long “security” … provided by the government. Chase talks about the “cult of the proletariat” being engulfed in this new revolution … a “revolution” “wider and deeper than anything Karl Marx imagined.” Chase wrote that “Whatever the change, it is going in the direction of more collectivism, more social control of economic activity, more government ‘interference’, less freedom for private business.” He said we “MUST employ collective action” and in fact said he sympathized with what he termed the “first road”, the direct and single-minded attack along the lines of what Stalin did. He wrote “I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.”
Chase wrote there were three “roads” America might take to its [unsaid but communist] future. He said “The road to violent revolution [that’s his first road] is blocked. The road to business dictatorship [that was his second road] has mud holes and soft shoulders. Other nations may follow one or the other in the next few years, but hardly the United States. We [meaning the Fabians] turn to the third and last road; the drastic and progressive revision of the economic structure”.
The third road avoids “an utter break with the past. It must entail collectivism pushed at last to control from the top, but control over landmarks with which we are reasonably familiar.” In it, “an aroused citizenry forces its government to revise much of its business law, to institute certain powers and controls which will attack the problem of distribution at its source, intelligently, and not too violently, and with increasing thoroughness." Sound familiar?
Chase continued, “It may entail a temporary dictatorship; I do not know.” He was clearly not opposed to that. He just wanted the useful idiots to believe the dictatorship would be “temporary”. It's shocking that FDR brought this man into his administration in a key position … and let guide him as a member of his Brain Trust. That's why I think FDR was himself a Fabian.
Now I could go on and on about the other President's and their connections to Fabian Socialism, but I'll conclude by pointing out that Chase's second book said that if enough pieces of society are fundamentally “transformed” into "X", then there will be no going back. I think Obama read the book and was keen on “transforming” America during his Presidency (his Big Ego Again). But he failed, and thanks to Trump we still may have time and hopefully the means to fight the Fabians, PROVIDED people learn about them in time. But time is running out. As you say, “Tick Tock”.
Part II ...
But Teddy made the mistake of forgetting stealth … and as a result, he scared the public and lost the election to Wilson, who campaigned as a moderate. But in reality, Wilson was another closet Fabian. He was the back up plan and proof that Wilson was a Fabian comes in many forms. First and foremost is the fact that Wilson surrounded himself Fabians. Some came out of the ISS. His closest adviser, Edward M. House, however, did not, but while House was not an admitted Fabian, he spent much of his childhood and adult life in Britain, likely surrounded by them. And in 1912, he wrote a book titled “Philip Dru: Administrator”, whose contents certainly make him a Fabian.
After writing the book, he insinuated himself into Wilson’s inner circle, writing in his diary, “I began with him before he became President and I have never relaxed my efforts.” He quickly became Wilson's closest friend. Wilson said “I never met a man whose thoughts ran so identically with mine." In a letter to his brother-in-law, House wrote, "It is just such a chance as I have always wanted, for never before have I found both the man and the opportunity."
The opportunity House spoke of was to enact the vision for America that he described in his book … a *fictional* plan for the conquest of America by gaining control of both the Republican and Democratic parties, and then using them to create a socialist world government. The plan included a graduated federal income tax, a central bank, a social security program, an inheritance tax, and it suggested taking functions away from the states … all things the Fabians wanted.
The book even suggested a conspiracy "insinuated into the primaries, in order that no candidate might be nominated whose views were not in accord with theirs." Plus, the book’s central character, Dru, said “Our Constitution and our laws served us well for the first hundred years of our existence, but under the conditions of today they are not only obsolete, but even grotesque.” All this sounds like the views and strategy of the UNIPARTY today, doesn’t it?
Guided or even managed by House, Wilson quickly proceeded to enact several of the changes that Fabians desired. It happened so quickly that American historian, Arthur Howden Smith, wrote "In nine months the Wilson administration completely reorganized the financial structure in accordance with the conceptions outlined in 'Philip Dru.’" First was a progressive income tax.
Congress had passed an income tax in 1894 targeting only the top 2 percent of wealth holders and the Supreme Court (SC) had declared it unconstitutional. Democrat SC Justice Stephen Field, however, predicted that a small progressive tax “will be but the stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.”
When Wilson signed the first progressive income tax into law and the courts ruled it constitutional, Fabians must have been ecstatic. War between rich and poor was what they needed, and over the years they got it, more and more, as government at all levels began to take more and more and more. Till we ended up in the situation we are today.
In 1913, Wilson/House also created the Federal Reserve System, handing the government unprecedented control over the monetary system. This was a top Fabian wish list item. Of course they made sure to fill the top position with a Fabian, George Foster Peabody, who wrote "I have always been most sympathetic to individual Socialist aspirations. I have particularly observed the Fabian System of England with hopeful anticipations.”
When WWI started, Wilson proclaimed the US would remain neutral. But when the Lusitania was sunk in May 1915, House advised Wilson that Americans could “no longer remain neutral spectators”. Wilson’s Secretary Of State, William Bryan, refused to abandon neutrality so when Wilson sent an official message of protest to Germany, Bryan resigned, to be replaced by Robert Lansing. The joke in Washington was “how do you spell Lansing? H. O. U. S. E.”
In early 1916, House told the French foreign minister that US entering the war on the side of the allies was inevitable … they just needed an incident that would cause Americans to support doing that. Yet, in the 1916 election, guided by House, Wilson ran for reelection on the slogan “He kept us out of war”. Remember, a kept tactic of Fabians is deception.
Shortly after the new term began, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war. House confided in his diary that he had “stirred [Wilson’s] ambition to become the great liberal leader of the world.” What better way than to enter and win a war. With the US involved, the allies were likely to win, so Wilson and House began planning the postwar world. House’s big dream was a World Communist Government, so it’s no surprise that he was a key figure in the opportunity the war created to create a League of Nations.
Wilson asked House to assemble a group of experts to develop what would become the basis for Wilson’s Fourteen Points. House was probably the major contributor. When Wilson presented his fourteen points at Versailles, they called for a "league of nations to ensure peace and justice”. The Germans agreed to an Armistice and Wilson returned to the US, leaving House to work out the details. The Germans signed the treaty but the Senate then rejected it (Senator Henry Cabot Lodge didn’t like the fact the League could force the US to enter a war without Congressional approval). The Senator warned, speaking of the US, “if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence.” With thoughts of Ukraine, how prophetic!
Because of the failure, House and Wilson had a falling out, never to met again after Wilson left Paris. House remained for further negotiations. When the US didn’t join the League, a British group called the Round Table, funded by the Rhodes Trust, both of them Fabian connected, sought to encourage its own web of interdependency with the US. In other words, British Fabians again had a back up plan. US diplomats (including House) and British diplomats met in Paris. The most important attendee was said to be Lionel Curtis (https://www.chathamhouse.org/2019/05/hotel-majestic-and-origins-chatham-house). It was Curtis who devised the framework of the Fabian associated Rhodes Round Table. He was educated at Fabian associated New College, Oxford. He was probably a closet Fabian Socialist as well. More evidence of that is that he joined the League of Free Nations Association that was founded by Fabian Socialist HG Wells. In 1918, that association joined with another group, the League of Nations Society, also dominated by Fabians (such a Leonard Woolf).
Now at the Paris meeting, it was decided to create a British/American organization called "The Institute of International Affairs", which would have offices in London and New York. But they encountered difficulty getting it started so, instead, they joined a set of meetings which had been ongoing since June 1918 in New York City, under the name … now get this … the “Council on Foreign Relations" (CFR). See Fabian Socialists pop up at every turn?
I'm going my post into several parts.
Part I ...
Another good and well written article. I didn’t know that about LBJ! Now while I hope you are right, I’m not as certain that we can win this just because we have phones and the internet and a citizen army of *journalists*. Because access to them can be controlled, as China has amply demonstrated. Plus, there there is still one extremely significant fact that most Americans, even with phones and the internet, still know little or nothing about. You mentioned Woodrow Wilson, FDR, the Kennedys, LBJ, and the Clintons. What do they all have in common besides being democRATS? The answer is ties to Fabian Socialism.
While none of them were/are openly Fabian Socialists, each has been heavily influenced by them. Each has many close associates who are admitted Fabians or close to them. Yet, if you ask the vast majority of Americans to tell you what Fabian Socialism is, how it began, what it’s goals are, and the impact it’s had on America over the years, they will have a blank expression. Most may not even have heard have it (it’s not taught in our schools) and whatever those that have heard of it think they know is probably wrong because it came from the controlled media. For the most part, Americans have been kept in the dark about it.
Consider the Encylopedia Britannica. Its article on Fabian Socialism is less than 400 words long, compared to the 10,000 words devoted to Marxism, even though Fabian Socialism has arguably had a much greater influence on the US and West than Marxism. Britannica doesn't mention the Fabian Society’s communist roots (it was started by Marxists who disagreed only in how to spread Marxism). It doesn't mention its infiltration of American politics, starting in the late 1890s when Society Co-Founder Sidney Webb toured the US spreading the *gospel* according to Fabians. His visit and the work of other Fabians soon led to the founding of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which started chapters at many US universities. In 1914, the Harvard Chapter was officially renamed the Fabian Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and many important Americas were ISS members.
The Fabian goal, in the words of Edward Pease another Co-Founder, was the “reorganization of Society by the emancipation of Land and Industrial Capital from individuals and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit.” Meaning that they planned to confiscate and steal the people’s assets and redistribute them just like Marxist communists said they’d do. Only they would do it gradually and stealthily. Fabians envisioned a top down, mostly peaceful, revolution, in contrast to Marx’s bottom up violent revolution. They planned to infiltrate the top ranks of the organizations that control societies (government, media, business, etc) and then steer them, stealthily, towards their communist controlled utopia. Such an approach wouldn’t take many followers and wouldn’t have to motivate the masses … just keep them unaware and gradually make them comfortable with living under a socialist/communist dictatorship.
Just to illustrate how quickly Fabian Socialist thinking infiltrated American politics, consider Teddy Roosevelt (not mentioned in your article). Most conservatives still idolize Teddy. They don’t realize that he was a closet Fabian. They’re stuck on the fact he was a Republican for a while. But he may have been the first RINO. He was visited by Sidney and Beatrice Webb in the 1890s, before joining the Republican Party. And once he became President, he quickly tried to move the GOP toward progressivism … which is what many Fabians were stealthily calling their own movement at the time.
One wonders if Teddy joining the Republican Party wasn’t a Fabian plot, because by 1907, Teddy was already proposing such radical reforms that they were being blocked by Republicans. He called for all sort of things that the Fabian Society had wanted … a strong central government to regulate industry, national health and social insurance, an inheritance tax, and a Federal income tax. That caused him to split with them and in 1912 launch his Progressive Party, with himself as their presidential candidate.
By then, Teddy wasn’t even trying to hide his Fabian thinking. In fact, in his 1913 autobiography there's an appendix titled "Social and Industrial Justice" in which he compliments a hardcore Socialist, Vladimir Simkhovitch, who distinguished between revolutionary Marxism and another socialism … one that would get to that beautiful world that socialists envision, not by revolution, but by gradual change … in other words, by exactly the means Fabian Socialists advocated. Teddy’s Progressive Party platform was so far to the left that the New York Times called Teddy a "Super Socialist” (i.e., communist)!
Part III ...
The same story plays out during FDR’s administration. FDR not only attended Harvard about the time the Fabians opened up an ISS chapter, he brought numerous Fabians into his inner circle and administration. In fact, his vaunted Brain Trust, which supposedly guided him in planning the New Deal and other policies, included many ISS Fabians, among them Rexford Guy Tugwell, Stuart Chase, Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, Roger Baldwin, and Harold J. Laski.
Tugwell, a Columbia economics professor, had toured the USSR in 1927 with Chase, returning to speak of the glories of socialism. He became known as “Rex the Red”. He saw the USSR as America’s future, saying "There is no denying that the contemporary situation in the United States has explosive possibilities. The future is becoming visible in Russia.” “Regarding that future,” he said, “The first series of changes will have to do with statutes, with constitutions, and with government. It will require the laying of rough, unholy hands on many a sacred precedent, doubtless calling for an enlarged and nationalized police power for enforcement.” “Planning will necessarily become a function of the federal government; either that or the planning agency will supersede that government. ... It has already been suggested that business will logically be required to disappear. This is not an overstatement for the sake of emphasis; it is literally meant."
Tugswell was one an influential Brain Trust members. He helped design The New Deal’s farm program and the resettlement administration. But the other Brain Trust Fabians were just as important and extreme. Chase, for example, wrote several books that tell us a lot about what Fabians planned and why they were doing it. His first book, published in 1931, was titled "A New Deal”. That date proves that Lipmann lied when he said the New Deal was “wholly improvised after Roosevelt was elected.” In it, Chase wrote “The sixteen methods of becoming wealthy would be proscribed - by firing squad if necessary - ceasing to plague the orderly process of production and distribution.”
Chase’s second book, “The Road We Are Traveling", written in 1942 while Chase worked in the New Deal administration, is even more interesting. Here’s a link to it: https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf . The subtitle of the book is “Guide Lines to America’s future” and it’s noteworthy that Obama’s 2012 campaign video was titled “The Road We’ve Traveled”, suggesting he read it.
The book is a celebration of the Fabian plan to convert America’s free enterprise economy into what Chase called Political System “X”. Chase listed 18 characteristics for “X”. 1 Strong, central government, 2 Executive branch dominates legislative and judicial branches, 3 Government control of the financial sector, 4 Employment underwritten (through armaments or public works), 5 Social security, 6 Food, housing, and medical care underwritten by government, 7 Deficit spending to finance these underwritings, 8 Abandonment of the gold standard, and 9 Government control of foreign trade, 10 Control of natural resources, 11 Control of energy, 12 Control of transportation, 13 Control of agriculture, 14 Control of labor, 15 A youth corps with an ideology consistent with authorities, 16 Heavy taxation, with emphasis on estates and the income of the rich, 17 Control of industry without ownership, 18 Control of communications and propaganda. That list is very similar to the one in the Communist Manifesto. No coincidence.
After introducing the notion of “X”, there’s a chapter titled “Goals For America.” In it, Chase says the first goal should be “to satisfy the needs and desires of the common people” then says the answer to that goal is life long “security” … provided by the government. Chase talks about the “cult of the proletariat” being engulfed in this new revolution … a “revolution” “wider and deeper than anything Karl Marx imagined.” Chase wrote that “Whatever the change, it is going in the direction of more collectivism, more social control of economic activity, more government ‘interference’, less freedom for private business.” He said we “MUST employ collective action” and in fact said he sympathized with what he termed the “first road”, the direct and single-minded attack along the lines of what Stalin did. He wrote “I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.”
Chase wrote there were three “roads” America might take to its [unsaid but communist] future. He said “The road to violent revolution [that’s his first road] is blocked. The road to business dictatorship [that was his second road] has mud holes and soft shoulders. Other nations may follow one or the other in the next few years, but hardly the United States. We [meaning the Fabians] turn to the third and last road; the drastic and progressive revision of the economic structure”.
The third road avoids “an utter break with the past. It must entail collectivism pushed at last to control from the top, but control over landmarks with which we are reasonably familiar.” In it, “an aroused citizenry forces its government to revise much of its business law, to institute certain powers and controls which will attack the problem of distribution at its source, intelligently, and not too violently, and with increasing thoroughness." Sound familiar?
Chase continued, “It may entail a temporary dictatorship; I do not know.” He was clearly not opposed to that. He just wanted the useful idiots to believe the dictatorship would be “temporary”. It's shocking that FDR brought this man into his administration in a key position … and let guide him as a member of his Brain Trust. That's why I think FDR was himself a Fabian.
Now I could go on and on about the other President's and their connections to Fabian Socialism, but I'll conclude by pointing out that Chase's second book said that if enough pieces of society are fundamentally “transformed” into "X", then there will be no going back. I think Obama read the book and was keen on “transforming” America during his Presidency (his Big Ego Again). But he failed, and thanks to Trump we still may have time and hopefully the means to fight the Fabians, PROVIDED people learn about them in time. But time is running out. As you say, “Tick Tock”.