Liberty and Property
In this 1958 speech, Ludwig von Mises explains why, under socialism, "freedom" means the elimination of dissent. The socialist goal is bondage, not liberty.
Political Theory
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6.2. The Fate of the Rising Generation within a Bureucratic Environment
The German youth movement was doomed, because it did not attack the seed of the evil: the trend toward socialization.
6.1. The German Youth Movement
Capitalism is a system under which everybody has the chance of acquiring wealth. All roads are open to the smart youngster. But not under the rising tide of
bureaucratization.
5.3. The Bureaucrat as a Voter
The bureaucrat is not only a government employee. He is also his own employer.
7.2. Economics Versus Planning and Totalitarianism
The main issues of present-day politics are purely economic and cannot be understood without a grasp of economic theory.
5.1. The Philosophy of Bureaucratism
The State is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals.
6.4. The Selection of the Dictator
The alternative to the democratic principle of selection through popular election is the seizure of power by ruthless adventurers.
3.1. The Impractiability of Government All-round Control
The very idea of central planning by the state is self-contradictory.
7.3. The Plain Citizen Versus the Professional Propaganist of Bureaucratization
The conflict between capitalism and totalitarianism—on the outcome of which the fate of civilization depends—is a war of ideas.
5.2. Bureaucratic Complacency
It was a purposeful confusion on the part of the German metaphysicians of statolatry that they clothed all men in the government service with the gloriole of altruistic self-sacrifice.
