Good detective work! Finding Dr. Franz Pick, I mean.
If we are looking for the match of monetary opinions to 'modern' ideologies, we need look no further than a Mr. Vlad Lenin, who opined (and I paraphrase), 'comes the Revolution, the only use for gold will be in public toilets'.
I do not think that this was mere idiosyncrisy on his part. Such hostility to any objective, non-socialist means of preserving and trading wealth is common to all the modern Totalitarianisms.
That will include Euro-Socialism, American Socialism, Chinese and other 'Communisms'.
The arguments against gold as money are illusory. Take a look at your allies in this quarrel: hordes of tax-eating gubmint trough-lickers, alarmed at the prospect of facing any real limits to their appetites.
Paper tokens would work well if only mankind were not human, 'all too human'. Place your faith in agents of the State, if you will, but don't expect others to share your touching naivete.
"...your touching naivete." We've agreed and sided with each other on way too many important issues to flirt with argumentum ad hominem.
Call it "naivete" if you will, but one cannot help but note the following:
- All of the "economists" arguing for the dismantling of the Federal Reserve and the resumption of the Gold Standard simultaneously advocate the liquidation of all federal government assets and the handing over of central banking responsibilities (the gawddamn keys to the vault) to the politicians in Washington. This contradiction fails any sanity test yet devised - except maybe those still administered in Havana or Pyong Yang.
- I've yet to visit a "Gold Bug" website that doesn't try to justify their position with endless Y2K-like hype and forecasts of calamitous societal collapse.
- Behind every "Gold Bug" website, there seems to be a precious metals retailer or a subscription offer for a conspiracy theory newsletter.
And quoting Lenin? Come on now! I can't even take that as sincere sarcasm. The Soviet Union didn't exactly line the public toilets with gold (hell, they couldn't even stock them with toilet paper!) - the Soviet Union sold it's gold in the capitalist commodity markets to keep it's corrupt regime from collapsing to dust while Western "paper" economies flourished and continue to do so.