Professor Herzog?Hertzog, informed Jack London and William Morris?

Submitted by Ilyan on Man, 07/02/2007 - 4:38am.
Jack London put  a footnote about the Professor in a novel,  but then I found that William Morris had said something very similar  in real life.   So the calculations could have been real.   Can anyone enlighten us  whether there really was such a Professor.   There is a modern US one of the same name who is not forthcoming with answers.   A link might lose his tenure!
 
This is included in the CDs assembled as  course work by Plebs' College Students, quite a few wobblies should have a copy by now. 
 
The Diversity of Plebs' College
at  Carmarthen

Discussion note 64
  
Sometime before 1910 Professor Herzog of Austria worked out that five million people working for one and a half hours a day with their machinery at productive socially useful labour would be able to supply a population of twenty million with all the  necessaries and small luxuries of life.
  
What did he miscalculate, or, where have we gone wrong?  

If he was half right, then what about today? Are we mad? We drain the Earth's resources to maintain armies of people who produce nothing, they play with paper to maintain a money system that is totally unnecessary. Sufficient productive workers will easily be found among the people who are just too bored doing nothing. People might even be prepared to pay for the joy and privilege of doing productive work.
  
What bloody fools we have in the Labour Party. Well that is a little unfair, we should say the Government, and all the political parties.
  
In these terms, the only reason for maintaining the money system is to produce profits. But where does it profit man if the system destroys the Earth's ability to support EarthLife.
  
There is of course another reason, they have so educationally deprived people that the belief that idle hands make mischief has gained credence. People must be chained to slavery work, to inflate the Ego of those who have thieved control of the Earth's resources. Having white personal servants was the 1954 dream of the neo-fascist conspirator from South Africa who was then outlining Thatcherism. 

Ilyan. 1 November 1998

 I thought we had good reason to abolish money in that, but now think there will be such a demand for productive work to do that money would have to be reintroduced in order to charge people for the privilege of working.  

That was intended for a discussion, the lack is close to closing the doors of Plebs' College in Carmarthen.   What should I do with the Library?   It includes Marx's "Capital" that was owned by  a non Communist member of the Jewish Workers' Circle who made it onto Hitler's Death List to be killed when Britain was occupied..