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Social Credit
[f. social a. + credit n.]
1. A political theory advocated by C. H. Douglas (see Douglas3), according to which the supposed chronic deficiency in the purchasing power of consumers was to be remedied through a reduction of prices by means of subsidies to producers or through the giving of additional money to consumers; occas. also, a subsidy under this system. Also short for Social Credit Party or League.
1920A. R. Orage in C. H. Douglas Credit-Power & Democracy 166 The effect is inherent in the separation of Real Credit from Financial Credit—Social Credit, that is to say, from Financial Credit privately controlled. 1922C. H. Douglas Labour Party & Social Credit 17 It is an important Report, not..as advancing any valid..criticism of the principles or details of Social Credit. 1935Calgary Typo News 15 Mar. 1/1 We wonder..what is the policy of The Albertan? Liberal, Social Credit or Independent? 1936S. E. Thomas This Social Credit Business 16 If the A + B Theorem is sound, what is the necessity for ‘National Dividends’ as well as Social Credits to retailers? 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Political What's What? xi. 84 The apostles of Social Credit once actually persuaded a Canadian legislature to budget on its imaginary riches. 1966R. S. Milne Political Parties in New Zealand iii. 78 Potentially, therefore, the Democrats, Democratic Labour, and Social Credit were ‘national’ parties. 1974E. McGirr Murderous Journey 127 Ricardo's political grin.. calculated to warm the cockles of any voter way back to Douglas Social Credit.
2. attrib. and Comb., as Social Credit analysis, Social Credit group, Social Credit leader, etc.; Social Credit League, (a) Canad., an organization outside party politics corresponding to the Social Credit Party; (b) N.Z. (also Social Credit Political League), a political party advocating Social Credit; Social Credit Party Canad., a political party whose policies are based on the theory of Social Credit.
1922C. H. Douglas Labour Party & Social Credit 26 This article successfully avoided any mention or indication of the Social Credit Proposals. Ibid. 29 The Social Credit Movement..is in sharp opposition to the official Labour Party and High Finance jointly. 1931V. A. Demant This Unemployment vi. 121 The Social Credit analysis of C. H. Douglas, costing expert for the Government during the War. 1934T. S. Eliot Rock i. 12 Ain't you ever 'eard me speak o' the principles of Social Credit Reform? 1935Economist 29 June 1474/1 A Social Credit scheme for Alberta under which he promised to guarantee every adult inhabitant of the Province $25 per week. 1958Maclean's Mag. 10 May 97/4 When the two factions separated Wicks and Savage took the name and formed the Social Credit League. 1958Time (Canadian ed.) 15 Sept. 16/3 The leader of the badly mauled Social Credit party. 1961Canada Month Nov. 11/3 The B.C. Social Credit League offered alternative solutions to his problem. 1965Oxf. N.Z. Encyl. 277/2 Two splinter parties, the Social Credit League and the Communist Party, have contested seats in elections, but neither has ever secured a seat in the House of Representatives. 1966Encycl. N.Z. II. 812/1 In May 1953, the New Zealand Social Credit Political League was formed. 1966‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept iv. 106 Douglas's Social Credit system (or a partial form of it) was tried out by Alberta, Canada, in the inter-war years. 1967Canad. Ann. Rev. 1966 5 Both the NDP and the small Social Credit group indicated that they were willing to co-operate with the government. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 8/1 The national Social Credit Party could drive forward to counteract its ‘inaccurate image’. 1968Landfall XXII. 365 The men armed with Social Credit conversation for the interval. 1969N.Z. News 5 Nov. 8/5 The Social Credit Leader, Mr. Cracknell, may have all too often been dismissed as something of a political lightweight.
Hence Social Crediter, Social Creditor, an advocate of Social Credit; also occas. Social Creditist (cf. Creditiste).
1938Social Crediter 17 Sept. 2/1 What I (a Social Crediter) should say to that, is that I don't know whether Sir Oswald agrees with me or not. 1953M. Lowry Sel. Lett. (1967) 337 The Social Crediters fell, after having made some demonstrations of power. 1963Daily Tel. 31 Oct. 14/2 The Social Creditists, appealing mainly to Quebec nationalism, could muster only 27 votes against 210. 1965Economist 13 Nov. 713/1 In the new [Canadian] house there will still be nine Creditistes attached to Mr Caouette, and five Social Crediters of the Thompson variety. 1976H. Wilson Governance of Britain viii. 161 In past times, not recently, they were told, the number of committed Henry Georgeites, or Douglas Social Creditors, might have put forward similar claims. |