Debt

Debt, particularly international debt, is the first and over-mastering grip. Through it
men in high places are suborned, and alien powers and influences are introduced into
the body politic. When the debt grip has been firmly established, control of every form
of publicity and political activity soon follows, together with a full grip on industrialists.

The stage for the revolutionary blow is then set. The grip of the right hand of finance
established the paralysis; while it is the revolutionary left that holds the dagger and
deals the fatal blow. Moral corruption facilitates the whole process.