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3.1. The Impractiability of Government All-round Control

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The very idea of central planning by the state is self-contradictory.

7.3. The Plain Citizen Versus the Professional Propaganist of Bureaucratization

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

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

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

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.

6.5. The Vanishing of the Critical Sense

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The capitalist variety of competition is to outdo other people on the market through offering better and cheaper goods. The bureaucratic variety consists in intrigues at the "courts" of those in power.

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