Every time (Christmas), we insist on turning to the usurer Ebenezer Scrooge. And this is because we believe that Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is one of the harshest – if not the harshest – text against usury that devours Western civilization. And it devours not only the victims but also the perpetrators when they belong to our civilization. We believe that Dickens wrote the most intelligent, penetrating and apt denunciation, so successful that no one has managed to silence it.
The main protagonist is a usurer (who is a Christian) Ebenezer Scrooge.
Scrooge is a Christian, but with a name, Ebenezer, triumphantly Jewish, which is initially mentioned in the Book of Samuel, in the Old Testament as Eben-Ezer, a location of a great victory of the Israelites over the Philistines.
At the time the story was written, Jewish bankers have almost dominated the economic, banking and commercial life of the British Empire. They finance everything through loans. They lend to aristocrats with titles and state connections, but without serious incomes, in exchange for access to power. They lend to the state for wars, they lend to businesses. Little by little, the straps of the Zionist Banks tightened their grip on England. The British Empire was the first vehicle of globalization, since due to its volume, it served the plan.
Dickens’ short story is a very important, coded denunciation of the inhuman usury practices of his time, given in a very clever way, so as not to suffer the persecution that usually ends every book, treatise or voice that denounces the dictatorship of usury and its Princes.
The climax of the cry against usury is the point where Scrooge’s dead partner, James Morley, appears before him, and explains to him that the enormous chains with which he is bound and carries them, are the result of the chronic usury practices with which he lived. That he made them himself.
When Scrooge, stunned, gives him the devastating excuse: “but it was just business,” Morley’s doomed spirit replies in despair:
“Business? Humanity should have been our business.”
Dickens, in a single sentence, denounces the inhumanity of usury, the practice that enslaves people to banks and financial interests. He denounces the futility of a successful career when it cuts us off from the basic code of life that our place in nature grants us. He slanders the slavery of the spirit in golden chains.
Dickens’ book could not be more timely or timeless. The situation of people today proves the futility of the bulimia for material goods and the dictatorship of interest, which has not diminished at all since the author’s time, but on the contrary has increased, sharing misery and despair throughout the planet.
The only, unyielding, historical enemy of the usurers, Nationalism. The only ideology that does “its job, humanity” by protecting the community, the Race, traditional values and resisting the materialistic frenzy of societies that reduce “business” to God.
Nationalism both denies and crushes in practice the consumerist doctrine “consumo ergo sum” that is, I consume therefore I exist.
Nationalism both respects and supports business activity, but disagrees with speculation and believes in a market that cultivates private initiative but imposes substantial control and redefines the ultimate goal of entrepreneurship, which is not superprofit but profit for the benefit of society as a whole.
In other words, economic activity cannot be contrary to the national benefit. If some of you are “regulated by the system” to react to such thoughts, I will remind them that the motto of Akio Toyota, grandson of the founder of the great company and responsible for the enormous qualitative rise of Toyota, is: “less is more”.
We must of course try to impose this code on ourselves first, before we believe that we will be able to impose it on the markets.
With the humanistic melody from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens accompanying us, we wish you a Happy New Year.
