Stuart Chase

Stuart Chase was a socialist economist who coined the phrase "New Deal" and was an advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[1] In the early 20's he was treasurer for the League for Industrial Democracy.^[2]^[3]

Political System X

In his book The Road We Are Traveling, Chase listed these 18 items:^[4]

A strong, centralized government.
An executive arm growing at the expense of the legislative and judicial arms.
The control of banking, credit and security exchanges by the government.
The underwriting of employment by the government, either through armaments or public works.
The underwriting of social security by the government – old-age pensions, mothers' pensions, unemployment insurance, and the like.
The underwriting of food, housing, and medical care, by the government.
The use of deficit spending to finance these underwritings.
The abandonment of gold in favor of managed currencies.
The control of foreign trade by the government.
The control of natural resources.
The control of energy sources.
The control of transportation.
The control of agricultural production.
The control of labor organizations.
The enlistment of young men and women in youth corps devoted to health, discipline,community service and ideologies consistent with those of the authorities.
Heavy taxation, with special emphasis on the estates and incomes of the rich.
Control of industry without ownership.
State control of communications and propaganda.

↑ STUART CHASE, 97; COINED PHRASE 'A NEW DEAL'. New York Times (1985). “He was one of the last surviving members of the small group of advisers who helped President Roosevelt shape the New Deal.”
↑ The challenge of waste. Stuart Chase (1922).
↑ Counter Attack on Reaction Organized - Research Group to Aid Labor - Wants Production for Use Not Profit. Machinists' Monthly (1922).
↑ (1942) The Road We Are Traveling 1914-1942. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 95-96.