The Outbreak of World War I: A Libertarian Realist Rebuttal

Tags: Democracy, War and Foreign Policy, World History

03/31/2023 Joseph Solis-Mullen

One excuse that political elites give when they drag nations into war is that the conflict was “inevitable” or “unavoidable.” Ralph Raico knew better.

Original Article: “The Outbreak of World War I: A Libertarian Realist Rebuttal”

This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.