Newt, Systems, etc......

[Tim Ware]

Jan wrote:

>GR contains new (for the time) material about real world crimes perpetrated
by IG Farben.

I just thought I'd mention Richard Sasuly's book, IG Farben, which I 
recently read.  It was written in 1947 and is considered a major source 
for GR, a fact which is quite obvious when one gets into it a bit.  It 
lays out most of the information regarding IG in GR, and then some.  It 
almost seems like a proto-GR.

One thing that is very clear is that although IG was this monolithic 
corporate "beast," it was driven by some very bad cats, e.g. Carl Duisberg 
and Hermann Schmitz, who represented and articulated Nazi ideology and 
corportate over individual (i.e., workers') interest.  This paragon of 
the "evil system" was no "bad" system composed of "good" people, but 
rather a sprawling corporate monster, with business "visionaries" 
dictating policy and everyone else just doing their part.

Anyway, it's a great read, especially for GR fans, and a chilling 
reminder that "the spirit of IG" lives on right here in the good ole USA 
in policies that are gaining popularity in hard times.

BTW, Mr. Sasuly, with whom I had several conversations, is quite an 
amazing man who now writes about horse racing.

Tim-the-Techno-Fetishist  

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