Acknowledgments
The territory of Good and Evil, Freedom and Slavery, Lordship and Bondage, Reason and
Foolishness, Creation and Destruction, etc., has been explored since time immemorial. But
much reflective thinking still remains to be done; much territory is still unopened and
unexplored. The connection between Mind, Life, and Justice, is still not the real
substance of Legislation. Man's Destiny is still grounded and mired in servitude.
In Books I-III, I explore the extreme dangers from Capitalism as technology
for dominating Man as servitude, and I reflect on the new grounds for a better
Destiny for Man. This intellectual adventure would have been impossible without
drawing on the works of the giants: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Galileo, Hobbes, Locke,
Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Clausewitz, Schopenhauer, Jefferson, de
Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Freud, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Heidegger, Schumpeter,
Rawls, Bohm, Ricoeur, and others. My intellectual indebtedness to these giants is
gratefully acknowledged.
I used Thomas Hobbes' logic to unconceal Capitalism as a Religion of Money. I derived
the basic elements of Hobbes' Theory of Authority and Power from the analysis by Stephen
Holmes in his Introduction to Behemoth. To develop the Gedanken Plan of War against
the Money Trust, I used Carl von Clausewitz's concepts and principles of war in Vom
Kriege. Hegel's philosophy of Lordship and Bondage is the seed of my explanation of
the essential relationship between the Usurer and the Entrepreneur. Martin Heidegger's
thinking on the subject of dominion through technology provided me with the
essential intellectual machinery for probing the essence of Capitalism. I used David
Bohm's notion of implicate order to unconceal the essence and meaning of the
business cycle.
The Economic Survey draws on many economic and financial data sources. These are
identified in captions and listed in the Bibliography and in the Analytical Index. The
University of Toronto Library, the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, and the
Statistics Canada Reference Centre in Toronto have been extremely helpful.
There are undoubtedly errors and omissions in my work. For these, authors normally take
full responsibility; however, as a Capitalist, I will content myself with blaming time
and chance.
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