Towner Phelan

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01/06/2010 Mises Daily Towner Phelan

The weakness of a benevolent despotism is that there is no guarantee that it will remain benevolent. The Social Welfare State, the modern liberals' goal, is essentially a Germanic concept.

The Marxian Virus in American Thought

12/31/2009 Mises Daily Towner Phelan

The New Deal is the American manifestation of the worldwide trend which produced fascism, communism and British socialism. It results from the desire of man to escape individual responsibility, to lean upon the all-powerful state and to trade his freedom for the politician's promise of security.

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