Ostara No. 11

The Economic Reconstruction by the Blondes, an Introduction to Private-Economic Racial Economy.

By J. Lanz-Liebenfels.

The Foundations of the Ariosophic Economic System.

It is a demagogic delusion to believe that after the—by all states—lost “World War,” things will “improve” for the proletariat in particular, and that the revolution must bring the golden age specifically to them! World history teaches the opposite. After such catastrophes, only one thing has ever helped and led humanity to a higher development: the solution—Save more, work more, pray more! The World War is precisely the consequence of an uneconomical racial way of life and a misguided, so-called humanistic-democratic, “socialistic,” mechanistic-materialistic worldview, which, instead of thrift, preached boundless enjoyment and consumption; instead of honest work, deceit, effortless gain, and speculation; instead of religious and ethical ideals, instead of love for homeland and nation, godlessness, lack of morals, and a vague, homeless internationalism. This worldview, considered as an economic system, is a pure, one-sided system of consumption, waste, and squandering, and the principal opposite of a productive or economic system. Thus, “socialism”—indeed, any system built on democratism—is the greatest and most fundamental obstacle to any economic order. Socialization at the top, socialization at the bottom, in a word: vulgarization and trade unionization everywhere, have caused the horrendous catastrophe. The socialization of capital through banks, stock companies, and trusts has brought about an era of boundless exploitation; the socialization of the masses has, as a counterpart, conjured an era of the bloodiest terrorism (of the Bolsheviks).

Over-industrialization and over-intellectualization, two fundamental errors of the mechanistic-materialistic economic system—which go back to a lack of knowledge about population dynamics and to the conscious contempt for ethical and spiritual imponderables—have produced in Central Europe an overpopulation of around 30 million people, whose nutritional basis lies overseas. Every day, the world’s population increases by 50,000 people. That is uncanny! Because of these 30 million too many, who owe their existence to a racially uneconomical economy, the world war and the world revolution had to be fought—and for their sake, not for the sake of ambitious rulers and “criminal bourgeois governments,” as the socialists hypocritically claim, the world and economic peace must be fought for. On the contrary, all governments, both the Entente and the Central Powers, were forced back by socialist terror during the war and, during the war, introduced “state socialism” in the form of “central economic controls,” “land reform,” and the “tenant protection” system, which, for both victors and vanquished, led—because it is dictated by nature—in the same way to economic and political collapse. Bolshevism merely drew the last consequence from this and smashed the last remnants of culture to pieces.

Only the return to a social-individualistic free economy, to the ethical-spiritual, ariosophic worldview, can bring salvation. Less in technical-economic innovations—the past era has achieved remarkable things in this field—not so much in the improvement of the means of production, but rather in the improvement of the subject of production, the human being, both physically and spiritually, is where the solution to the problem—namely, the reconstruction of the world economy—must be sought.

The method of our ariosophic investigation must focus just as sharply and thoroughly on the factual, physical-technical-mechanical object of production as on the personal, psychological-spiritual, freely-willed subject of production. The agricultural and industrial product, its foundations, conditions of manufacture, and possibilities for sale must be considered just as much as the producer—that is, the human being as society, state, nation, and especially as individual and racial type! In this method of investigation, I intend always to first take the negative, then the positive path: to first discuss the obstacles to production in the object—that is, the agricultural and industrial-economic obstacles and their removal—and then to examine the obstacles to production in the subject of production, that is, in society, state, people, and individual.

From these fundamental lines of thought, the structure and organization of the subject arise of themselves. In this current booklet, private economic “racial economy” is to be treated. In another treatise (“The Dictatorship of the Patriciate”), the “racial-economic” state economy will be discussed.

But it also follows from the principles developed here, the author’s essential standpoint regarding the issue: The “social” and “collectivist” economic doctrine, which has held civilized humanity in its thrall for nearly 700 years, has, in a one-sided and uncritical way, stood under the influence of the object of production; this view and method corresponded to the materialism prevailing during this period—the typical philosophy of an era of scoundrels. The improvement of agricultural and industrial technology, of machines and materials, was advanced with enormous acumen and inventiveness, and thus an apparent surplus production was achieved. But the improvement and perfection (in physical and spiritual respect) of the subject of production—society, state, nation, and individual—materialism, and its child, socialism, have not only neglected but deliberately prevented. The scoundrels of all nations have made world war and world revolution, they are the victors of the world war and the world revolution, and, by their own admission, they are also the destroyers of the world economy! The goal and purpose of the world war and world revolution is the extermination of the Ario-Heroic race, and to some extent, this plot has succeeded.

Yet the eternal race laws are eternal laws of nature. The scoundrel is not only evil; he is always also stupid! For, in killing the heroic man, he has also destroyed his own life’s work, heroic culture, and with it the foundations of economic life. For we know as ariosophists that the heroic man is not only the sole creator, but also the sole preserver of life.

The aim of the following treatise will therefore be to show that all classes will only be able to restore their economic life to order if, within their national territories, they re-create the life possibilities for the sole preserver of culture and economy—the heroic, ariosophic, blond race—that an unfortunate, anti-ariosophic, 700-year, scoundrel-friendly, economic-political current of thought has deprived them of. World economy cannot be restored without men of heroic nature. The scoundrels have tortured and slain him. But the time will come when they will desperately seek him out and cry for him as leader and savior. The heroic man, as farmer, technician, and priest, will save humanity once again! Out of the red blood-fog of an almost 700-year rabble- and scoundrel-epoch, the coming age of the “dictatorships of the heroic patriciate” rises in dazzling brightness! Faster than we thought, our time has come!

It is a peculiar fact—one little considered, but repeatedly emphasized by the old ariosophic fathers—that the noble, heroic man ennobles soil, flora, and fauna, whereas the scoundrel (Tschandale) everywhere and always, throughout world and economic history, lays waste. The lower races make soil, flora, and fauna barren and desolate. The Tschandale is a predator—the most dangerous on this planet—and, moreover, a bearer of disease.

Therefore, our first demand is: If agriculture is to become healthy again, then men of the heroic-Aryan race must once again, and more than before, become practicing farmers. The Tschandales, themselves parasites and vermin, always live in an environment of parasites and vermin. Revolutions and mob-epochs are always accompanied by plagues of bedbugs, fleas, and rats, and the ensuing epidemics among animals and humans. It is telling that, in 1928, a world congress had to be convened to address the plague of rats and bedbugs. Therefore, if one wishes to free agriculture from animal and plant pests, one must first save the countryside from the human pests of the scoundrel-type and repopulate it with heroic full-men. Away from the cities, away from purely intellectual professions, and back out onto the open land!

But the Aryan hero must heed our motto: “Save, work, and pray!” Due to space limitations, we can only write in catchwords.

The Ario-Heroic (Aryan-heroic) man must, above all, live as an Ario-Heroic person. Therefore, measures for thrift in nutrition are required. The reduction of meat consumption is not only an economic demand, but also a health-related one; Liebig’s protein theory has been refuted—it is not protein, but mineral nutrients that are life-giving, and the aromatic substances are stimulants for mental workers. A diet low in meat is the most suitable for humans; the overfeeding with meat before and during the war was the cause of the decimation of local livestock. The proletariat now lives, on average, more luxuriously than before; hence the shortage and high prices of food, because it concerns millions of additional consumers. There is only one remedy: a return to the simple, national diet of the fathers, above all the introduction of “whole bread,” which bypasses the milling process, as the main staple food. The advantages:

1. Eminent nutritional value, because the minerals are preserved and consumed;

2. Tasty and extremely beneficial for health;

3. Abundance;

4. Savings by bypassing the milling process in human, animal, and machine labor, in coal and hydropower.

First and foremost, Simonsbrot (Simon’s bread), which meets these principles, is recommended. The same method of utilizing foodstuffs should also be applied to grain, legumes, and fruits, whose currently discarded peels contain precisely the most valuable nutrients and nutritional energy. The consumption of coffee, tea, and cocoa should be restricted, and people should return to traditional potato and stew soups. This would result in: enormous sugar savings, a reduction in the import of colonial goods, and an increase in the export of cereals and meat.

Further measures would be:

l Organized collection of urban kitchen waste for fertilizer and feed purposes,

l Rational utilization of urban and industrial wastewater and waste. The sewers of cities and factories can provide fertilizer, cellulose, alcohol, even sugar. Waste incineration yields heat, and with the warm industrial wastewater, the soil of adjacent vegetable gardens can be heated. The cleaning of river courses, which goes hand in hand with rational waste and wastewater management, benefits the much-neglected fish farming.

Positive reforms:

l Improvement of soil and fertilization methods,

l Electrification of the soil,

l Artificial fertilization,

l Correction of climate by radiating, heating, and cooling (in the tropics),

l Perfecting agricultural machinery,

l Use of ship mills for pumping and generating electrical energy, waterwheels and turbines, solar heat machines—especially in combination with hot air engines—potato and peat drying and silo systems,

l Exploitation of hot springs and natural gas for agricultural purposes.

The overall result of these reforms would be that agriculture becomes completely independent from coal and thus from the restless and unreliable, socialist-infected industrial proletariat, and that the food supply would be emancipated from the tyrannical arbitrariness of these scoundrelish and destructive elements.

These reforms are to be organically linked to a comprehensive canal and river regulation system. The major transversal route from Rotterdam to Sulina opens up enormous perspectives: Black Sea coast, Volga region, Berlin. The guiding principles for the expansion of the European waterway system would be:

1. Improvement and irrigation of the adjoining soils, using them as vegetable and fruit gardens;

2. Electric utilization of water power, especially for agricultural purposes;

3. Use as inexpensive and high-capacity traffic routes for large shipments;

4. Promotion and organization of fish farming;

5. Proper selection of the form and size of vessels and, correspondingly, canal profiles—avoiding transshipment, choosing smaller vessels that can be inserted into any suitable “frame ships” without unloading, avoiding costly and traffic-disturbing locks by means of ship ramps or cableway transport.

Overall result: significant coal savings, relief of railways, and elimination of the traffic crisis.

To this should be added: Extensive and intensive improvement of grain cultivation, careful selection of seeds, special consideration for hardy native varieties, combating pests, turning suburban agriculture near major cities and industrial centers into vegetable gardens following the Japanese model. Extensive and intensive improvement of viticulture (wine growing) and fruit cultivation, especially consideration of native, hardy, and high-yielding varieties, large-scale planting of strawberries, walnuts, chestnuts, and wild pears.

The economic significance of these fruits is as follows:

1. Nuts are the most nutritious food, producing both meat and bread; the same applies to chestnuts;

2. The undemanding nature and hardiness of these three types of fruit;

3. Their high yield;

4. Low maintenance;

5. The possibility of storing the fruits for long periods in large quantities without elaborate preservation methods;

6. High technical value of nut wood;

7. The wild pear is an extremely efficient feed for small animal breeding.

Further improvements in fruit preservation and cellar management, production of non-alcoholic beverages, dried fruit, and dried vegetables. Extensive and intensive improvement of legume cultivation, new ways to produce sugar and spirits, and certain exotic tuber crops whose large-scale cultivation in Central Europe is highly recommended, as they are also oil and textile plants. Promotion of the cultivation of native oil and fiber plants to reduce cotton imports; replacement of exotic oil and textile plants, tea, coffee, and cocoa with wholesome native products; quantitative and qualitative improvement of vegetable cultivation. Extensive and intensive improvement of forestry, pasture, peat, and pond management, with special consideration for resin-producing trees to become independent from the import of exotic resins and lacquers. Breeding of European rubber-producing plants and trees and of medicinal and colonial crops. Rational use of reeds: reeds as roofing material, basket weaving as a stimulating and profitable winter activity for the rural population, to prevent migration to the city. Extensive and intensive promotion of livestock breeding, slaughter and draft animal breeding, selection of breeds, careful care of native cattle and horse breeds, promising crossings with foreign breeds, further development of pasture and dairy farming, sheep breeding, wool production and leather processing, and small animal, bee, and silkworm breeding in Europe. Because of the enormous indebtedness to America and the rising passive trade balance, all European states will be forced to implement these reforms.

The practical implementation of these reforms is envisioned less by means of state agricultural schools and more through private and individual initiative, with the state assigning land in the countryside—either as leasehold or property—to needy, unemployed, willing-to-work, and Arioheroic members of the urban middle class, following the model of overseas “colonial regulations.” Likewise, war invalids and state pensioners should be settled not with money, but with land in this form. In this way, the state relieves the cities, creates a loyal, intelligent, new class of small rural landowners who produce in their own interest, introduce the proposed innovations, and thus act as an example for their surroundings. The eternal “vicious circle” of salary increases for civil servants, tax increases, currency devaluation, etc., would be effectively broken. The state does not increase salaries but grants land for cultivation! Further recommendations: development and revival of rural markets, agricultural exhibitions with prize distribution, and above all a unified, well-organized, artistic and yet thoroughly popular education through radio and continuous cinema presentations, which must be made compulsory for cinema owners under threat of penalty, and which should be used for propaganda in churches and schools.

The heroic man is also a friend of plants and animals. With his extermination in the past scoundrelly 700-year period, plants and animals have had to suffer immensely. Everywhere, the Tschandales have devastated the landscape by cutting down trees and bushes. Not only historical monuments but also natural monuments—the trees, shrubs, flowers, as well as useful and beautiful animals—must be placed under the protection and care of the heroic man. The most ferocious enemy of vegetation and the forest is the paper and newspaper industry, which devours vast forests every year. The forest is the most beautiful and magnificent national treasure of a people. Every effort must be made to find cheaper and more abundant raw materials for cellulose than spruce wood. Grasses and rushes should especially be considered as substitutes, perhaps even the old papyrus plant.

Following the example of the noble Baron von Berlepsch, reserves and breeding areas for useful birds should be established everywhere. This would not only be a beautiful, animal-friendly passion but also an extraordinary benefit to the economy. Birds in particular eradicate vermin and plant pests. Since the Tschandales have exterminated these useful birds, plant parasites have increased alarmingly and, for example, have made fruit tree cultivation unprofitable. The various preparations of chemical factories do nothing to change this, as they cost fruit growers money and labor and only bring profits to the chemical companies. The practical Americans have built countless wooden towers and settled bats in them specifically to get the upper hand over plant—and especially fruit—pests.

If agriculture were freed from the plague of pests and parasites, and through the work of the heroic man also from the scourge of idlers, then, through the work of the right people, even poor soil would become fertile and cheap; in agriculture and plant breeding above all, the ancient biological practices of our ariosophic ancestors would be reintroduced.

Then it might be possible for us, in a foreseeable time, to succeed in growing the most marvelous plants, including natural fiber plants, provided with light, warmth, and shelter.

The Machine Economy

Modern industry stands or falls with coal and iron as its primary sources of materials. The world economic crisis after the great World War is essentially a coal, raw materials, and ultimately a labor crisis. The latter will remain for a long time, unless the states overcome Tschandalism (the writer’s term for “unworthy” or “scoundrelly” elements). If, therefore, industry and agriculture are to become independent in their development from the economic and political extortion of organized Tschandalen, and civilized humanity is to be freed from the perpetual pressure of rising costs and taxation, then we must turn to energy sources and raw materials that require less human labor than coal and iron. Above all, it must be emphasized that we regard work in the mines as unworthy of the heroic man. Such work should be done only by Tschandalen, or better yet, by criminals. But since coal and iron can only be obtained by mining, modern industry today finds itself in an insoluble conflict with the racial economy. The question, therefore, is to eliminate coal and iron as much as possible.

Coal can, in many cases, be easily replaced by oil-firing, natural gas and peat-firing, by heating from urban waste, by the waste heat from industrial plants, and by natural hot springs. Bathhouses, laundries, hospitals, and churches, for example, could be heated easily and at little cost by a system of warm-water pipes connected to natural hot springs. Why should not state and municipal offices and schools also be heated by such natural hot water systems, which supply heat for free? Technical difficulties would not be hard to overcome; the hot water pipes could be laid and commissioned in a few months, and the wastewater (not from hospitals), could still be used to heat kitchen gardens in the outskirts of cities and promote the production of early vegetables before being drained into the main sewer.

The replacement of coal by the electrical use of hydropower was already discussed above in connection with canal management. For the transition period, intensive use of ship-mills on the rivers is urgently recommended, both for milling grain and for driving electric machines. The construction of such mills could be handled by the technical units of the army, which would be an extremely instructive practical training for both enlisted men and officers. This would mean that both enlisted men and officers would need to be trained in a technical profession. In the same way, windmills and wind turbines, and in lakes and at the seashore, wave and tide engines, should be built and used to a far greater extent than before. For these engines in particular, a completely new method of storing energy must be applied. It would be advisable to use these engines to drive electrical influence machines, produce oxyhydrogen gas with the current, and use it for power, light, and heat as required. In addition to water power, the much more common and cheaper lime (in the form of carbide) should also be used as an accumulator for the energy extracted from water, wind, and solar engines, more than before and as a substitute for coal.

Incidentally, the invention of a photodynamo, which converts the light and heat of the sun directly into electrical energy, is already within reach. Likewise, it will not be long before humanity learns to exploit the temperature differences that exist between equator and pole, between the earth’s surface and interior, or between the surface water of the sea and its great depths, in a technical manner. These are energy sources that are inexhaustible and make coal completely unnecessary. On Saturn, according to Lorber, this discovery was made long ago.

Instead of coal, more human power must be used for personal transport. The transportation crisis and the high price of fares will revive the use of bicycles. It would be easy to create a combination of bicycle and air-propeller with pedal drive, which would make it possible to use wind energy for faster movement. The expansion of canals will create a whole new sport: the water-velocipede with an air propeller.

Even elementary considerations suggest that the current shape of ships, which still stems from primeval times, is not the most economical for rapid movement in water. On the contrary, it is immediately apparent that a rotating body on water encounters less resistance than the rigid, immobile hull of a ship. Nature, the great engineer, has given us a wonderful clue here: all celestial bodies rotate, because this evidently saves energy.

The second main pillar of modern industry is iron and metals. Every expert knows what misuse and incredible waste has been committed with iron. First, the battlefields of the World War should be exploited for their masses of metal, and all dispensable weapons should be melted down and recast into tools. But many static construction elements of modern machines are made with great waste from cast iron or metal, when cheaper cement and, above all, highly compressed paper pulp would in most cases be a completely adequate substitute. Large bridges are already being built out of reinforced concrete beams; in America, train wheels are made of paper, and in Sweden, large ships are built from cement and concrete. This construction method has grown in importance and extent over the last decades, especially in bridge-building. We shall still see the day when the many iron lattice bridges collapse and will have to be replaced by concrete bridges. The collection of scrap metal should be organized more thoroughly and economically. Here, too, thrift pays! Currently it is completely in the hands of the Tschandalen, so it must yield a lot!

A major obstacle to the reconstruction of European agriculture and industry is the enormous increase in building costs and the resulting housing shortage. In land reform and the resettlement of the many applicants for land on newly developed parcels, the impossibility of erecting affordable and suitable dwellings stands as an insurmountable barrier. Building materials and construction wages have risen to such an extent that even the most modest settler’s cottage would now require sums that, in earlier times, would have sufficed to purchase a luxurious villa. I do not exaggerate when I say that land parceling and land reform will fail due to the housing issue—unless a completely new, more affordable house type is created. In my view, therefore, we must also return to the thriftiness of our forefathers in building and construction. This certainly does not mean I advocate tasteless barracks, shacks, or “proletarian” art. On the contrary, we only need to look back to ancient local building methods—such as the “wattle and daub” construction, or, where iron is very cheap, the clay-wire mesh construction with an impregnated thatch roof—in order to find not only a healthy and cheap, but also a highly artistic, building style. The thatched roof could also be made fire-resistant by sowing and cultivating special mosses on it, which would also lend it a picturesque appearance. The thatched roof, apart from the danger of fire, has the following advantages: light weight (requiring a lighter and cheaper substructure), warmth in winter, coolness in summer, virtually unlimited durability, easy repairs, and—above all—can be built easily and cheaply even by laypeople. This proposed building method would allow settlers to build much of their homes themselves. Dressed wood, masonry, and all other hard-to-produce or expensive building materials would be reduced to a minimum.

Another option is construction using tar bricks and tar molds, which involves mixing the excavation or soil from the building site itself with heavy, high-boiling-point tar, and pressing it into bricks or other building forms. Similarly, peat-brick construction may be preferable, depending on local conditions.

The further development of the sawdust and tar-pressing process would also be very promising. This could lead to “cast wood” and the production of molded wooden furniture and prefabricated wooden houses, saving tremendous labor that would otherwise be required for planing, carving, salting, etc. A very low-grade waste product like sawdust could become the starting point for an entirely new, major industry.

For stables and utility buildings, construction using grown and intertwined trees according to the method of Engineer Wiechula, Berlin-Friedenau, is highly recommended and very forward-looking. As for rural development, the multi-family house system should be further and more consistently implemented. Proper consideration should be given during parceling and in village, settlement, and city planning. Public, government, market, and school buildings should be placed as close as possible to railway stations to avoid unnecessary transportation of goods and people.

Not only the building style but also the settlement pattern of the land is of racial-economic significance. Economical states must abandon the current haphazard mixed settlement system and move to a systematically organized, differentiated settlement and housing system, which separates industrial and rural populations. The restless, migratory industrial population—usually best settled near raw material deposits—should live only in dedicated industrial districts, while in agricultural districts, industrial construction should be prohibited. The current mixed state is a waste of energy and is also unhygienic for humans, animals, and plants. Workers must use transport to commute from home to work, losing money and rest time; workers living in closed communities are also easier to control during strikes, more easily isolated and starved by economic blockades. The rural population, on the other hand, is protected from infection by industrial worker socialism and its work-shyness by the prohibition of industrial plants in agricultural areas. There are also major energy savings when industries are located close to the mines.

The states will also have to deal more economically with decommissioned war and merchant ships. These ships will no longer be sold for scrap at a pittance but will be converted into hospital and hotel ships for the sick and those in need of recovery. For many illnesses, pure, germ-free sea air is itself a marvelous healing factor. Even wounds heal better at sea than on land. For how many worn-out, impoverished Aryan intellectual workers would a free stay on a state-owned hotel ship sailing the sea be an unparalleled blessing?

A similar practical use could be found for decommissioned railway cars in rural areas.

To overcome the raw materials crisis, thrift is also necessary in clothing. Just as meat does not need to be the basis of our diet, the excessive and expensively imported foreign cotton does not need to be the foundation of the textile industry. We should remember that the once flourishing, native textile industry (wool and linen weaving) of European countries was artificially ruined in the 19th century by cotton imports. There are no obstacles to returning to the most widely grown native fiber plants and to the most intensive sheep breeding, thereby making the foreign raw material base superfluous, or at least reducing it. As is shown in wool processing, it would also pay to discover new native plant and animal fibers, and to collect clothing and fabric scraps more attentively than before.

I have already mentioned the conversion of the paper industry to new raw materials.

A major shift in the raw material basis of industry is coming. Instead of coal, as already mentioned, the sun and the sea will take over; instead of iron and metals, cement, concrete, and paper; where possible, instead of cement, clay and tar bricks. Instead of natural wood, “cast” wood; instead of fabric clothing, specially prepared paper clothing and paper bed linens. In general, through various chemical and biological discoveries and inventions, we will soon be able to cheaply produce, in any desired quantity, a universal building material and universal raw material for all industries.

I will refrain from discussing the future development of transportation technology. Radio, automobiles, airplanes, hydroplanes, cableways (also in connection with aircraft), monorails, etc., are only at the beginning of their development, and we are already witnessing the realization of the “rolling vehicle.” The heroic man as an inventor of transportation technology will completely overcome time and space.

Electricity, which will be able to transmit power wirelessly (thus freeing up huge amounts of precious metal previously needed for wiring) and distribute it everywhere throughout the country, will also make possible the realization of the technical dream of the universal small machine. This machine will enable the farmer to process and refine his raw products himself, not only feeding him but also providing him with light, heat, clothing, shelter, and every comfort of life. This universal machine is by no means a utopia; as the crowning achievement of the social-individualistic and racial-economic system—which will truly make people free and happy—it is within reach.

It is no longer technically impossible today to build a machine that drives, swims, flies, plows, harrows, sows, mows, threshes, grinds, weaves, cuts, washes, tans, manufactures shoes, makes hats, produces sugar, alcohol, chemicals, paper, sets and prints type, splits and saws wood, planes, builds houses and furniture, supplies iron, cement, and paper pulp, molds, and provides everything necessary for life, without a person being dependent on the unfortunately never entirely reliable help of others. This machine will bring about the greatest social revolution and bring salvation and happiness to humanity in every way. Not new “conferences,” not new ministries or government offices, but such machines will be the foundation of the future economic and state system, and will conjure up that splendid technical paradise of the Age of Aquarius on this earth, of which the Grand Master of Ariosophy, Christ Frauja, speaks in such clear and unmistakable words: “And every valley will be filled, and every mountain brought low.”

The Economy of Mankind

The Tschandale is not only the unathletic, unethical, and unsocial man—he is also the uneconomic and uneconomical man.

As “inhuman” and unusual as the demands of special racial economy may be, they must be fulfilled. The North American states, based on the unfortunate experiences they have had with their highly mixed population from all countries of the world, have, in self-defense, resorted to the most drastic methods. Against the destructive and inferior racial elements, they have used corporal punishment and—to eradicate the evil for the future—even the old method of castration for criminals.

This, in fact, is true humanity—just as, in some states, euthanasia and the legalization of abortion are racial-economic protective measures, which now, thanks to neo-Malthusianism, appear scientifically justified. Every advance in nature is rooted in the two laws of negative and positive selection: that is, the elimination of the inferior and the perfection of the superior. If we want economic prosperity, if we want increased production, then we must first remove its greatest main obstacle—and this greatest obstacle is the inferior man, the unsocial and uneconomic Tschandale! The thoroughly outdated penal codes, infected by false humanitarianism, must finally be modernized according to racial-economic principles. If we must wage ruthless war against animal and plant parasites, then all the more so against human and social parasites!

Every criminal must fully compensate for the damage he causes, both with his property and through forced labor. Work must once again become a form of punishment. It must no longer be the case that distressed states let their patriotic and honest citizens starve through the devaluation of state debts, while thieves, swindlers, embezzlers, and black marketeers get off with a ridiculous fine or are comfortably housed, clothed, and—possibly in heated cells—fed for months and years in prison. All the condemned should be sent down to the mines, out into the countryside to regulate rivers, to dig canals, to build hydroelectric power plants!

Castration and enslavement of racially inferior people are ethically and economically justified demands, just as is the eradication of bacilli, rats, and bedbugs!

The Tschandalen wanted to exterminate the heroic race. We therefore have the right of self-defense against the “subhumans.” The Ario-Heroic race is today tormented by the Tschandalen in four ways: 1. by big capital, 2. by revolutions, 3. by wars, 4. by so-called “peace treaties,” “balance of power” practices, or by League of Nations institutions—in short, by the Tschandale-imposed peace of force. We have learned through inflation how terrible the weapon of capital and money is.

The influence of the Tschandalen on the finances and economic life of nations cannot be overestimated. For our part, the blond Ario-Heroics must learn in this regard. As long as there are men of the heroic race, even high aristocrats, who are so lacking in racial consciousness that they are lodge brothers, Jewish lackeys, apostles of humanitarianism, no Ario-Heroic should be surprised that his race fares so badly economically. On the contrary, we wish all such Ario-Heroics and Christians would become proletarians as soon as possible, and sink entirely into misery and shame.

The world catastrophe also befell civilized mankind because it attached too much importance, out of misdirected or simply false humanitarianism, to the care of children, the sick, the disabled, the hereditarily burdened, the degenerate, and the criminals—while, as the “dictatorship of the proletariat” openly declares as its goal, the beautiful, pure, and honest people of the Ario-Heroic race were persecuted and exterminated in a truly bestial and cruel manner. The care of the healthy, honest, productive, and creative people is, therefore—if we wish to see an increase in production and economic life as a whole—more than ever a matter of the utmost necessity.

Let us finally learn from our mortal enemies! They are fanatical practitioners of racial economics. As long as we are not, our economic situation will not improve! The Tschandalen and Communists are already crying out for rulers, while we ourselves deny our own mastery and our Lord three times before the cock crows again! Humanity today no longer needs apostles of humanitarianism, but rather needs—and in fact demands—rulers who bring order with a strong and just hand.

It would be misguided, as some racial hygienists—for example, the eugenicists—propose, for the state to take the creation and breeding of a better human race into its own hands in the form of a cumbersome bureaucracy, similar to a stud farm. If, based on the social-individualist principle, we oppose the nationalization of agriculture, industry, and the economy, then we are even more opposed to the nationalization of eugenics and racial economy! Especially under current conditions, such an approach could cause more harm than good. In fact, under the influence of the currently prevailing anti-Aryan socialist party movements, the racially inferior groups in power, out of self-preservation, are already striving to promote their own race as much as possible and to harm the heroic race. This happens, if not always consciously, then at least unconsciously and instinctively. For example, during the war, millions of healthy Aryans were ruined by “compulsory vaccinations.” Generally, it suffices if the state merely removes the shackles that hinder the higher, productive racial human being and refrains from imposing any artificial restrictions on his development. In this respect, a thorough reform of intellectual property law—i.e., inventors’ and authors’ rights—would be urgently necessary to promote production in all fields. The creatively productive person is, under current laws, exploited in an unheard-of manner. It is understandable that a time which abolishes property rights has even less regard for intellectual property rights. As a fundamental principle, intellectual property should at least be treated equally to material property. Intellectual property should be inheritable just as unlimitedly as physical property, and not become “public domain” after only 30 years. This law contains an insulting disregard for intellectual ownership. Violations of intellectual property rights should be punished more severely than violations of physical property rights. All public domain works of art and literature should not be handed over to the exploiters, who use the works of long-dead spiritual heroes to deprive and starve the current generation of intellectual workers of their rightful reward, but should instead become the property of the state. The state could then lease the distribution of these works and use the proceeds—which would be considerable, as all public domain works would be included—to effectively support the living generation of inventors, scholars, and artists, thus bringing all proposals for promoting production closer to realization. The patent law should be amended so that patent protection lasts indefinitely, and patent fees are paid not by the inventor, but by the exploiter.

These changes in the law, minor as they may seem, would free civilized humanity from the thousand-year-old accusation of hostility toward inventors and creators. They would preempt one of the communists’ most effective slogans. For it cannot be denied that, up to now, inventors and creators have never been promoted by their more business-minded and unscrupulous contemporaries, but have been exploited in a shameful way and, on top of that, vilified and persecuted. The beneficial effects of these legal reforms would be seen positively and immediately in a powerful increase in entrepreneurial and productive spirit. Only if we consistently think in ariosophic terms will we find the right means for the reconstruction of economic life. Human society and all sociological science can only be understood and comprehended in terms of racial economics.

Let us draw the conclusions from what we have found so far:

The socialist slogan of equality is a violation of nature.

1. Human beings are not born equal, but in different races: one is by nature of a high race and a productive person, another is a Tschandale (scoundrel), a parasite, and an enemy of culture, destructive to production.

2. The human races cannot and should not have equal shares in cultural goods and means of production, because culture, means of production, and production methods are not the work of all races of humanity, but of a single one: the “Aryan-heroic” race.

3. Capital is not always theft and the result of “worker exploitation”; honest capital is the result of inventive, intellectual work or of thrift and economy rooted in self-control and ethics among that higher, active “Aryan-heroic” race—which, in ancient times, consciously raised the lower and passive races out of animality, allowing them to participate in culture in exchange for the “interest” of labor. This prehistoric development can be observed everywhere on Earth, in all countries, and is still evident today in terms of racial economics: the central, level, fertile, agricultural parts of countries are mainly the land of masters and priests, owned by the higher race of Ario-Heroic descent. The mountainous, remote, border areas are industrial and workers’ land, and are in the possession of primitive, Mediterranean-mongoloid race elements. The physical and intellectual characteristics of the five main races play a major role in economic life.

4. Ario-Heroic race: the most intellectually and materially productive race; the race of great geniuses, lords, priests, and farmers.

5. Mediterranoid race: traders, merchants, popular speakers, and “labor leaders,” whose profession is not labor, but agitation.

6. Mongoloid race: industrial and factory workers—because of their cunning, brutality, large numbers, and fertility, the most dangerous race.

7. Negroid race: the agricultural laborer race of the tropics and subtropics.

8. Primitivoid race: the agricultural laborer race of temperate climates.

Cultural history gives irrefutable evidence that the economic life of a state depends far less on soil quality and climate than on the racial composition of its population. The northern European countries, which are disadvantaged by nature, are relatively much more productive than the rich and paradisiacal southern European or Central American countries. It is an economic law of nature that the productivity of any country depends primarily on the number and strength of its Aryan-heroic race elements. All national economists now admit that the chain traders, black marketeers, and price gougers are the main destroyers of economic life; this type of person, everywhere in the world, belongs to a single race—the Mediterranean-mongoloid type—and their main area before the war was the giant ghetto of Russian Poland, where, for a thousand years, the racial-economic policies of our ancestors had beneficially isolated this dangerous scum of humanity. In the world wars, the Germans, in their blinded and shortsighted policies, opened the doors to these greatest economic subjugators in world history, whose inhabitants now pour out as Bolsheviks, profiteers, and “people’s leaders” across the world, spreading everywhere a bloody trail of distress, misery, and suffering.

Therefore, if production is to return to order, states must, above all, for the protection of their still healthy and high-quality citizens, first root out the overgrown human weeds—first of all, the expulsion of all racially inferior foreigners. With the racial-economic justification given here, this policy will have no confessional (religious) slant anywhere. The world war has given all states a compelling refutation of the socialist theory of indiscriminate population growth. The slogan should no longer be “more citizens,” but “better, higher-quality citizens” (neo-Malthusian eugenics); hence, gentle elimination of the hereditarily burdened and criminals through sterilization (see relevant racial-hygiene laws of North America). Promotion of the breeding of a high-race, healthy, productive human type through the introduction of marriage licenses, premiums (in the form of land grants) for marriages between racially beautiful people, support of all racial-economic efforts of private associations, and abolition of the abortion ban.

The implementation of all reforms to increase production stands or falls with the preservation and cultivation of the higher, ethical, and productive racial type, and with the spiritualization and moralization of all labor. Human egoism is the most important factor of production, but it must be regulated and refined by religion and morality, otherwise it turns into selfishness. The ariosophic religion has, in periods of economic “collapse,” always revived economic life through “racial-religious labor orders” (spiritual knightly and noble monastic orders!), by consciously fostering the breeding of a universal type of physically and morally perfected and social human—the “homo mansuetus.”

After the collapse of ancient civilization came Benedict of Nursia; around 1100 came Bruno the Carthusian, Norbert the Premonstratensian, and Bernard of Clairvaux the Cistercian, who as “ariosophists” preached exactly the same economic doctrine I have presented here. Each time, this doctrine—with the principle: Save, Work, and Pray—brought boundless blessings upon humanity. They ennobled and transfigured the workday, shaped the entire life of the Ario-Heroic man artistically and with style, and conjured paradises out of deserts. We need only follow these leaders, and we will reach the highest goals. As they did, so should we also act and pray with the words of Psalm 64: 11–14:

Psalm 64 (“Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion”)

11–12. Now streams from Heaven pour their sacred blessing,

From Grail’s wellspring flows Your holy seed;

O crown and bless Your fairest work of wonder—

Your race, created pure in word and deed.

13–14. Revive with angels wilderness and hill;

With grain and lambs adorn each fertile plain,

That all the earth in joyful song may praise You—

A single psalm resounding in Your name!