This conversation covers Antony C. Sutton's "Wall Street Trilogy," (https://amzn.to/46lMS0O) argues that American financial interests played a significant, often overlooked, role in supporting and shaping various totalitarian regimes. It contends that Wall Street financiers, like those from J.P. Morgan and General Electric, provided financial and technical assistance to the nascent Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Italian Fascist state, viewing these regimes as opportunities for economic exploitation and control rather than ideological adversaries. The text further suggests that figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt were deeply connected to these financial elites, and that his New Deal policies mirrored "corporate socialism," which centralized economic power. It also touches upon attempts by certain American business figures to establish a fascist-style government in the United States, and highlights how information regarding these connections was sometimes suppressed.

The Wall Street Trilogy by Antony Sutton

This conversation covers William E. Akin's "Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941," offers an overview of the Technocracy movement that gained significant, albeit brief, popularity during the Great Depression. The book examines the movement's genesis in progressive-era ideas concerning industrial efficiency and social engineering, drawing heavily from thinkers like Thorstein Veblen and the principles of scientific management pioneered by Frederick Winslow Taylor. Akin particularly focuses on the key figures of Howard Scott and Walter Rautenstrauch, exploring their differing visions for a society organized around technical expertise and energy-based economics, rather than the "price system" of capitalism. Ultimately, the text explains the movement's rapid decline due to its failure to reconcile its technocratic ideals with democratic principles and its inability to address the social and political complexities beyond purely technical solutions.

Technocracy and the American Dream

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