Omnipotent Government de Ludwig Von Mises

Omnipotent Government

Ludwig Von Mises

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2007

Liberty is not, as the German precursors of Nazism asserted, a negative ideal. Whether a concept is presented in an affirmative or in a negative form is merely a question of idiom. Freedom from want is tantamount to the expression striving after a state of affairs under which people are better supplied with necessities. Freedom of speech is tantamount to a state of affairs under which everybody can say what he wants to say. At the bottom of all totalitarian doctrines lies the belief that the rulers are wiser and loftier than their subjects and that they therefore know better what benefits those ruled than they themselves. Werner Sombart, for many years a fanatical champion of Marxism and later a no less fanatical advocate of Nazism, was bold enough to assert frankly that the Führer gets his orders from God, the supreme Führer of the universe, and that Führertum is a permanent revelation.* Whoever admits this, must, of course, stop questioning the expediency of government omnipotence. Those disagreeing with this theocratical justification of dictatorship claim for themselves the right to discuss freely the problems involved. They do not write state with a capital S. They do not shrink from analyzing the metaphysical notions of Hegelianism and Marxism. They reduce all this high-sounding oratory to the simple question: are the means suggested suitable to attain the ends sought? In answering this question, they hope to render a service to the great majority of their fellow men.

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Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition; Preface; Introduction; The Collapse of German Liberalism; German Liberalism; The Ancien Régime and Liberalism; The Weakness of German Liberalism; The Prussian Army; The Constitutional Conflict in Prussia; The Little German Program; The Lassalle Episode; The Triumph of Militarism; The Prussian Army in the New German Empire; German Militarism; The Liberals and Militarism; The Current Explanation of the Success of Militarism; Nationalism; Etatism; The New Mentality; The State; The Political and Social Doctrines of Liberalism; Socialism; Socialism in Russia and in Germany; Interventionism; Etatism and Protectionism; Economic Nationalism and Domestic Monopoly Prices; Autarky; German Protectionism; Etatism and Nationalism; The Principle of Nationality; The Linguistic Group; Liberalism and the Principle of Nationality; Aggressive Nationalism; Colonial Imperialism; Foreign Investment and Foreign Loans; Total War; Socialism and War; Refutation of Some Fallacious Explanations; The Shortcomings of Current Explanations; The Alleged Irrationality of Nationalism; The Aristocratic Doctrine; Misapprehended Darwinism; The Role of Chauvinism; The Role of Myths; German Nazism; The Peculiar Characteristics of German Nationalism; The Awakening; The Ascendancy of Pan-Germanism; German Nationalism Within an Etatist World; A Critique of German Nationalism; Nazism and German Philosophy; Polylogism; Pan-Germanism and Nazism; The Social Democrats in Imperial Germany; The Legend; Marxism and the Labor Movement; The German Workers and the German State; The Social Democrats within the German Caste System; he Social Democrats and War; Anti-Semitism and Racism; The Role of Racism; The Struggle against the Jewish Mind; Interventionism and Legal Discrimination against Jews; The Stab in the Back; Anti-Semitism as a Factor in International Politics; The Weimar Republic and Its Collapse; The Weimar Constitution; The Abortive Socialisation; The Armed Parties; The Treaty of Versailles; The Economic Depression; Nazism and German Labour; The Foreign Critics of Nazism; Nazism as a World Problem; The Scope and Limitations of History; The Fallacy of the Concept of National Character; Germany's Rubicon; The Alternative; The Future of Western Civilisation; The Delusions of World Planning; The Term Planning; The Dictatorship Complex; A World Government; Planned Production; Foreign Trade Agreements; Monetary Planning; Planning International Capital Transactions; Peace Schemes; Armament Control; A Critique of Some Other Schemes Proposed; The Union of the Western Democracies; Peace in Eastern Europe; The Problems of Asia; The Role of the League of Nations; Conclusion; Index.