/ world today news/ Following the example of the West, we have adopted a foreign standard of living that is unbearable for our people.
Now we want to live only with Western luxuries, forgetting that neither our racial energy nor nature is the same as theirs. Taking from prehistoric times a terrible fortitude of spirit, furor teutonicus, freshness of body and heart, the Germans strengthened themselves with long historical discipline, enriched themselves immensely with inventions, navigation, industry, plundering colonies – they can easily afford the splendor of their cities with palaces, theatres, temples, the luxury of fields and parks, the abundance of factories, railways and navies.
They are ten times richer than us and quite naturally, without tension, they have arranged for themselves a rich living environment.
We, on the other hand, are a continental people, scattered over a rough country, and far from overcoming all natural obstacles. The Russians are an agricultural, non-commercial people, and we are characterized by comparative poverty and a culture less magnificent, less artificial, closer to nature.
It would be more natural for us to have a natural economy rather than a money economy, artisan productions rather than factories, a generally agricultural, rural lifestyle rather than a capitalist one.
But the West has struck the imagination of our upper classes and forced us to restructure our entire national life with the greatest sacrifices and great danger to it.
Like India, which went from a once rich and until recently prosperous country to a completely poor one, Russia has become an appendage of Europe in many of the most debilitating ways.
In our desire to have all those luxuries and comforts which are so common in the West, we are compelled to give it not only a surplus of grain, but, like India, the necessary supplies.
Our people are chronically malnourished and prone to degeneracy, and all this just to preserve the sheen of Europeanism, to enable a small stratum of capitalists to stand on an equal footing with Europe.
Translation: SM
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