Pacifism

Tags: Political Theory, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/05/2026 Ludwig von Mises

Mises distinguishes the older pacifism of dreamers appealing to the high-mindedness of kings—which history simply left off its agenda—from the pacifism grounded in natural law, economic liberalism and democracy. He then turns on Wilson’s League of Nations, reading it as a new Holy Alliance: another division of the world presuming to be final.

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