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...generic evil, of which all other are varieties, is, according to Mr. Fruchs, the exploitation of man by man. His book is an attempt to trace its course, from its earliest appearance in primitive society, to a communistic Utopia somewhere in the distant future, in which all exploitation shall have ceased and the universal brotherhood of man shall have been accomplished. In the course of this discussion Mr. Fruchs finds occasion to inveigh against such specific evils as the over-emphasis of athletics, the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche, the plight of the Nottingham weavers at the beginning...
Stripped of its technicalities, the commodity dollar is a means of keeping the unit of value in constant relationship to price changes. It is a perfect theory and in a financial Utopia would work excellently. But since governments are not immune from politics and manipulation, especially abroad, where central banks and governments are in intimate contact every day, the chances of a practical and sound method of maintaining a unit of value by the commodity standard are remote...
...eighty years hence as a planet wholly civilized, gathered into one state, its trade perfected, its people lavishly provided with every necessity and every imaginable means of happiness, well ordered and well governed, none can gainsay him. If, in the course of showing the process by which this Utopia is achieved, he predicts devastating wars for the 1940's, complete breakdown of all trade in the sixties, the consequent reduction of all peoples to a semi-savage state, and the rescue of the populations from this distress by aviators and technicians, who, like the Hanseatic merchants, rule by control...
...riotous imaginings, to show, in rough outline, the endings of our present paths and the new and better ways which mankind may tread, provided only that mankind has the intelligence, the will, and the courage. As a book showing a possible transition from this immediate world to a conceivable Utopia, the work is no mean effort...
...make reviews of works by Messer Herbert Agar and Will Durant pinch-hit for his missing editorials. The first of these reveals in a few well-chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this there is not hide nor hair of H. L. to be found, and this commentator believes that the man should...