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Indeed, the losses which arise directly from a war are in no way proportionate to the losses deriving from a
Folk's bad and unhealthy life as such. Silent hunger and evil vices in ten years kill more people than war could
finish off in a thousand years. The cruellest war, however, is precisely the one which appears to be most
peaceful to presentday humanity, namely the peaceful economic war. In its ultimate consequences, this very war
leads to sacrifices in contrast to which even those of the World War shrink to nothing. For this war affects not
only the living but grips above all those who are about to be born. Whereas war at most kills off a fragment of
the present, economic warfare murders the future. A single year of birth control in Europe kills more people
than all those who fell in battle, from the time of the French Revolution up to our day, in all the wars of Europe,
including the World War. But this is the consequence of a peaceful economic policy which has overpopulated
Europe without preserving the possibility of a further healthy development for a number of nations.
In general, the following should also be stated:
As soon as a Folk forgets that the task of politics is to preserve its life with all means and according to all
possibilities, and instead aims to subject politics to a definite mode of action, it destroys the inner meaning of
the art of leading a Folk in its fateful struggle for freedom and bread.
