We will soon begin to establish great monopolies—reservoirs of huge
wealth, upon which even the large fortunes of the GOYS will depend to
such an extent that they will be drowned, together with the governmental
credits, on the day following the political catastrophe.
You economists, here present, will please carefully weigh the
significance of this scheme!...
We must develop, by all means, the importance of our super-government
by representing it as the protector and reward-giver of all those who
willingly submit to us.
_The aristocracy of the GOYS as a political force is dead. We do not need
to take it into consideration; but as land-owners they are harmful to
us because they can be independent in their resources of life. For this
reason we must deprive them of their land at any cost._
To attain this object, the best method is to increase land taxes—the
indebtedness of the land. These measures will keep land ownership in
subjection.
The aristocracy of the GOYS, which as a matter of heredity is unable to
be satisfied with small things, will soon be ruined.
At the same time it is necessary to patronize trade and industry
vigorously, and more important, to encourage speculation, whose function
is to act as a counterbalance to industry. Without speculation, industry
will increase private capital and tend to the amelioration of land
ownership by freeing it from indebtedness created by the loans granted
by agricultural banks. It is necessary that industry should suck out of
the land both labor and capital and through speculation deliver into our
hands all the money of the world, thus throwing all the GOYS into the
ranks of the proletarians. Then the GOYS will bow before us in order to
obtain the mere right of existence.
To destroy GOY industry we will create among the GOYS as an aid to
speculation the strong demand for boundless luxury which we have already
developed.
_Let us raise wages, which, however, will be of no benefit to the
workers, for we will simultaneously cause the rise in prices of objects
of first necessity under the pretext that this is due to the decadence of
agriculture, and of the cattle industry._
_We will also artfully and deeply undermine the sources of production by
teaching the workmen anarchy and the use of alcohol, at the same time
taking measures to expel all the intelligent GOYS from the land._
_That the true situation should not be noticed by the GOYS until the
proper time, we will mask it by a pretended desire to help the working
classes and great economic principles, an active propaganda of which
principles is being carried on through the dissemination of our economic
theories._