Anything that lessens the output of field and factory, whether it be heaven's drought or man's loafing, starves the economic state and starves all men in it.

If crop failure should last long enough, as it does in China, millions of men would die.

If war lasts long enough, as it did in Austria, millions of citizens must starve.

If labor should try slacking, as it did in Russia, the economic state would starve to death and the workers die with it.
Men who have been through strikes and lockouts until they have been reduced to rags and hunger place no trust in the Russian theory that men can quit work and loaf their way to wealth.

We loafed our way to hunger, misery and peonage.