Editing Frederick Soddy (section)

== Political views ==

In ''[[Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt]],'' Soddy cited the ''[[Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion]]'', which had been widely disseminated by [[Henry Ford]] in the United States, as evidence that the belief in a "financial conspiracy to enslave the world" was widespread at the time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Soddy |first=Frederick |title=Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt: The Solution of the Economic Paradox |title-link=Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt |date=1961 |publisher=Omni Publications |edition=3rd |location=United States |at=Chapter XIV: ''International Relations'' |ref={{harvid|Soddy|1933}} |orig-date=1933}} § ''Is there a Financial Conspiracy?''</ref> He further wrote that "conscious conspiracy or not {{omission}} a corrupt monetary system strikes at the very life of the nation".<ref>{{harvp|Soddy|1933|loc=Chapter XIV: ''International Relations''. § ''The Real Conspiracy''.}}</ref> Later in life he published a pamphlet ''Abolish Private Money, or Drown in Debt'' (1939).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code|first=Matt|last=Ridley|publisher=Harper Collins|year=2012|isbn=9780062200662|page=6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ublcaqIgPiIC&pg=PA6}}</ref>

The influence of his writing can be gauged, for example, in this quote from [[Ezra Pound]]:
{{blockquote|text=Professor Frederick Soddy states that the Gold Standard monetary system has wrecked a scientific age!  ... The world's bankers ... have not been content to take their share of modern wealth production – great as it has been – but they have refused to allow the masses of mankind to receive theirs.<ref>{{cite book|last=Surette|first=Leon|title=Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1999|page=218}}</ref>}}

Though some activists have insubstantially accused Soddy of anti-Semitism, most of his biographers dispute this narrative and argue that among Soddy's friends and students were some Jews who held positive views of him.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />