Remember Dennis Wheatley?

[Cliphead]

Adventure and occult yarns, was an English author. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930's through the 1960s.

In the winter of 1947 Wheatley penned 'A Letter to Posterity' which he buried in an urn at his country home. The letter was intended to be discovered some time in the future (but was found in 1969 when that home was demolished for redevelopment of the property). In it he predicted that the socialist reforms introduced by the post-war government would inevitably lead to an unjust state, and called for both passive and active resistance to it.

"Socialist ‘planning’ forbids any man to kill his own sheep or pig, cut down his own tree, put up a wooden shelf in his own house, build a shack in his garden, and either buy or sell the great majority of commodities – without a permit. In fact, it makes all individual effort an offence against the state. Therefore, this Dictatorship of the Proletariat, instead of gradually improving the conditions in which the lower classes live, as has been the aim of all past governments, must result in reducing everyone outside the party machine to the level of the lowest, idlest and most incompetent worker.

He said some more about what to do about it.

[EternalOptimist]

star of ill omen - I read that and its haunted me ever since

[HairyArsedBloke]

Adventure and occult yarns, was an English author. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930's through the 1960s.

In the winter of 1947 Wheatley penned 'A Letter to Posterity' which he buried in an urn at his country home. The letter was intended to be discovered some time in the future (but was found in 1969 when that home was demolished for redevelopment of the property). In it he predicted that the socialist reforms introduced by the post-war government would inevitably lead to an unjust state, and called for both passive and active resistance to it.

"Socialist ‘planning’ forbids any man to kill his own sheep or pig, cut down his own tree, put up a wooden shelf in his own house, build a shack in his garden, and either buy or sell the great majority of commodities – without a permit. In fact, it makes all individual effort an offence against the state. Therefore, this Dictatorship of the Proletariat, instead of gradually improving the conditions in which the lower classes live, as has been the aim of all past governments, must result in reducing everyone outside the party machine to the level of the lowest, idlest and most incompetent worker.

He said some more about what to do about it.

Here is wisdom:

No man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:17

[wurzel]

I remember watching The Devil Rides Out when I was about 8 years old and it scared the hell out of me. Loved To The Devil A Daughter as well.

[OwlHoot]

He said some more about what to do about it.

Excellent find, ClipHead

It will be immensely difficult to break the stranglehold of the machine, but it can be done, little by little; the first step being the formation of secret groups of friends for free discussion. Then numbers of people can begin systematically to break small regulations, and so to larger ones with passive resistance by groups of people pledged to stand together – and eventually the boycotting, or ambushing and killing of unjust tyrannous officials.

[Julius Caesar]

Adventure and occult yarns, was an English author. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930's through the 1960s.

In the winter of 1947 Wheatley penned 'A Letter to Posterity' which he buried in an urn at his country home. The letter was intended to be discovered some time in the future (but was found in 1969 when that home was demolished for redevelopment of the property). In it he predicted that the socialist reforms introduced by the post-war government would inevitably lead to an unjust state, and called for both passive and active resistance to it.

He said some more about what to do about it.

That Wikipedia entry:

Politics
His work is fairly typical of his class and era, portraying a way of life and ethos of clubland snobbery that gives an insight into the values of the time, good and bad.

Quite so.