However great, then, are the concerns in this direction regarding gigantic enterprises, we are actually dealing with truly organic creations, which one cannot split up, cannot undo. Let us take enterprises like Krupp, the great shipyards of Blohm & Voß, Schichau, and others – how could one contemplate dismemberment? Such living organisms with their own, magnificent life are something different from latifundia, which, if need be, can be divided up into smaller agricultural enterprises. They serve the totality of the people; they are, once they were able to arise, indispensable. Organic creations of this kind carry within themselves their own justification for existing; for that reason one ought not to touch them. [ . . . ]
It is an urgent need of our public life to win over the captains of industry, with their experiences, for participation; it is possible that the reform of suffrage and the elevation of the level of parliament it has brought about will make participation seem once again desirable to these leaders of our economic life. [ . . . ]
How very different from these large enterprises, which create value themselves, is the situation of the large banks; here, there is no public interest in letting these enormous masses of capital remain in a single hand, not even that of procuring money in case of war. It strikes me as right to introduce limits on the capital of the large banks and to enact a prohibition against increasing the size of capital. [ . . . ] I regard the complete suppression of department stores as necessary and believe that it is feasible. [ . . . ]
The way in which Social Democracy has been allowed hitherto to do what it wants cannot continue – on this all serious patriots agree. [ . . . ]
But what is to be done?
One should fall back on the draft of the Anti-Socialist Law that Bismarck presented to the Reichstag in 1878, and let it become law without the watering down that was so popular in parliament at the time. [ . . . ]
An amelioration of Social Democracy under Jewish leadership is impossible, as is a gradual turning away from internationalism. What is called for, therefore, is the preparation of the opportunity for the masses to turn around or stop by liberating them from the current leadership, by expelling from the German Reich all Reichstag and Landtag representatives, all party officials, all publishers and editors of socialist newspapers and magazines, all socialist union leaders – in short, all those in service to socialist propaganda; needless to say, the same applies also to all anarchists.
One must not be sentimental where the liberation of the people from those who drive it into corruption is called for. [ . . . ]
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