Mises Wire
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Ludwig von Mises
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happened. All the warnings were ignored. For fifty or sixty years the politics of European countries has been anticapitalist and antiliberal. More than forty years ago those willing to work and against placing state power at the disposal of the trade unions, against unemployment compensation, which has made unemployment a permanent have not yet succeeded in completely eliminating capitalism. If they had, we Europeans, after centuries of prosperity, would rediscover the meaning of hunger on a