nhưng ông không bao giờ gọi đó là những gì nó thực sự là: buộc phải quốc hữu hóa các ngân hàng và tín dụng. Đây là một chương trình phá hoại tài sản tư nhân, chính phủ đặt kiểm soát giá cả trong trường hợp này, một mặt bằng giá - lãi suất thương mại, | Who Represents the Consumers 103 Major Douglas like virtually all of capitalism s critics did not understand the doctrine of consumers sovereignty. He honestly believed that producers dictate terms of sale to consumers. He wrote Let me repeat - the only true sane origin of production is the real need or desire of the individual consumer. If we are to continue to have co-operative production then that productive system must be subject to one condition only - that it delivers the goods where they are demanded. If any men or body of men by reason of their fortuitous position in that system attempt to dictate the terms on they will deliver the goods not be it noted the terms on which they will work then that is a tyranny and the world has never tolerated a tyranny for very There are indeed tyrants in the capitalist economy the consumers. They are merciless. They keep asking producers this question What have you done for me lately And this question What can I expect from you tomorrow But Major Douglas saw the producers as the tyrants. He therefore failed utterly to understand capitalism s system of economic representation the owners of capital must serve the consumers or suffer the consequences namely or forfeited profits. It is the producer s opportunity to make a profit that serves the consumers as their hammer share owners are pressured to elect managers who serve consumers well - with the least waste of scarce resources. Because Major Douglas misidentified the bankers as the true masters of the economy he misidentified them as the hidden in the system. Central brokers - those who use the State to gain a monopoly over the control of money and credit -were indeed thieves and remain thieves. But this is not because they are bankers - agents of private depositors who lend mon 46. Control and Distribution of Production p. 13. 104 SALVATION THROUGH INFLATION ey. This is because the State has used its authority to create a private or semi-private monopoly over .
