The Social Artist

The Social Artist
Frances Hutchinson (Editor 2013-2929)

The Social Artist is the last, but by no means the least in this series of blogs covering available literature on all aspects of the world social order, past and present. (See all September Understanding Life and Debt blogs.) The Social Artist is the quarterly journal that I edited from 2013 to 2020. The full sequence is available electronically on the website https://www.douglassocialcredit.com/ . Articles and entire issues can be printed and circulated by educational associations for study purposes.

The Social Artist is a continuation of The Social Crediter, a weekly publication started by Clifford Hugh Douglas in the late 1930s. The new title relates to Joseph Beuys:

If we want to achieve a different society
where the principle of money operates equitably,
if we want to abolish the power money has over people historically,
and position money in relationship to freedom, equality, fraternity …
then we must elaborate a concept of culture
and a concept of art
where every person must be an artist …
            Joseph Beuys What is Money? A Discussion, Clairview Press, 2010.

The Social Artist is packed with reviews of, and extracts from, contemporary and historical writers and activists covering the full range of issues from corporate to household management, food, farming and above all finance. Selecting at random, we note that the Autumn 2016 issue contains the following.

A quote from Rudolf Steiner's The Social Future (1919).

A 2015 prediction from Chris Hedges on Jeremy Corbyn's future prospects as leader of the Labour Party.

A review of Douglas social Credit over the past century. Note that the term 'social credit' is currently being deliberately discredited in China and elsewhere .

Reprint of an article in The Tablet by Jonathan Tulloch.

Extract from Martin Parker et al, The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization (2014).

Article from Ekklesia by talented writer and frequent contributor to TSA, Bernadette Meaden on The Queen's Speech: a reality check.

Article on Home Economics by the Editor was subsequently developed into a series of articles in New View.

An extract from The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (2002) on contemporary provisions for child development raises a major contemporary issue.

The fiction and non-fiction writings of Eimar O'Duffy ( ) on finance and the social order are outlined in two extracts from the work of this brilliant but sadly neglected economist of the 20th century..

The extract from Danish economists Neils Meyer et al, Revolt from the Centre dates from 1981.

The edition concludes with Bernadette Meaden's review of George Monbiot's latest (2016) book How Did We Get Into This Mess?.

Each of the editions of The Social Artist carries a similar medley of material on the evolution of the contemporary social order. Fortunately we have to hand Wikipedia to look up unfamiliar names and organisations. The archives of The Social Crediter are also available in several locations across the world.

NOTE: See the website https://www.douglassocialcredit.com/FRANCES HUTCHINSON page for an electronic copy of the full text of most of the books introduced in this series of Blogs.