English Translation

167.) In these considerations, I wanted to discuss in detail and in detail those economic and social changes which appear to be taking place in the post-war democracies in their social structures; only as an example will I mention some of them and only insofar as they fall within the scope of these more theoretical discussions. A practical consequence of today's world war will be above all the new great social and economic nivellization, through the war, which will be as expensive as no other in history, so much material values, so many property of the earlier richer schichten and the higher social classes will be destroyed, so that the spirit impoverishment resulting from it will automatically create a significant social balance between the individual classes of all European and other peoples. This war is also financially different from the previous war. In the previous War, a number of states with large financial reserves or special financial measures occurred and were very much prepared for it (Germany, France, England, America). In the second world war all states - except the United States of America - came with financial liabilities, with high internal and international debts, the fascist states (Germany, Italy, Japan) had been so financially elevated even before the war that their entire economy had soared at that time.