Alison

“Rescuing the structures of capital accumulation meant quashing all popular expectations for social emancipation following the sacrifice they underwent during the war. The prize of postwar reconstruction was no longer democratic control of industry, no "a home fit for heroes"; it was, in the words of the merchant banker R. H. Brant of Lazard Brothers, London, the "hard truth" of "labour and suffering" (League of Nations, Brussels International Finance Conference 1920, Verbatim Record).”
― Clara Mattei, A ordem do capital: Como economistas inventaram a austeridade e abriram caminho para o fascismo