“IT is a law of history often verified that social egalitarianism, whether in the form of democratic radicalism or socialism and communism, is the most favorable to Big Business and money makers, because it breaks the political and social frameworks and families that impede the preeminence and the absolutism of money. Under an economic conception of civilization, egalitarianism appears both as a ransom and as a lever. It is always the middle classes, especially the rural classes, representing the largest wealth in the diffuse and fragmented state, which bear the brunt of egalitarian social movements, for the benefit of big businessmen, financial magnates and complicit demagogues. It should be added that from a strictly financial point of view, the disasters of history, the wars or revolutions, do not ever represent disasters to the handlers of money and shrewd businessmen, who can profit from everything, on the condition of knowing in advance, of being informed. This is why International Finance, placed on the very ground of [Capitalism’s economic theorist David] Ricardo, to combat him, many of his conceptions, his arguments, his theories and his conclusions.

“The mysterious bond, the secret affinity that unites despite everything the Mercantilists and Puritan businessmen with the Bolsheviks come from the fact that they have in common, while drawing different conclusions and ends, the same design and the same worldview.”

— George Batault, 1921

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