Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.
Ludwig Edler von Mises, Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus — “Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis” (1922), Part V : The Economics of a Socialist Community, § V : Destructionism, Ch. 33 : The Motive Powers of Destructionism, p. 440.
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