World History

Fabianism in the Political Life of Britain - 1919-1931

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07/17/1954 • Margaret McCarran

From the author: “The Fabian Society consists of Socialists,” as the first line of the Basis on the flyleaf of many a Fabian Tract declares. A Society which bears the heritage of Benthamite radicalism, it rose with strange genius in the 1880’s...

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Economic Doctrine and Method: An Historical Sketch

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06/15/1954 • Joseph Schumpeter

The science of economics, as it took shape towards the end of the eighteenth century, had grown from two roots which must be clearly differentiated from one another. The great writings of the eighteenth century of which Adam Smith’s Wealth of...

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Give Me Liberty

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History, World History

06/07/1954 • Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane in her youth supported the Russian Revolution, but a trip to Russia quickly dispelled her illusions. She realized that the mass politics of socialism necessarily suppressed individual freedom. America was founded on a different...

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Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time

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03/02/1952 • Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political...

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While You Slept

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/01/1951 • John T. Flynn

The amazing step-by-step, person-by-person story of how the American left wing took over our most influential media — radio, movies, magazines and books — and persuaded our leaders to support the Communist Plan to turn China and Korea over to...

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America’s Second Crusade

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

03/16/1950 • William Henry Chamberlin

Was World War II a failure? It is an unthinkable thought in the American political ethos. but noted American journalist and author William Henry Chamberlin dares think it, from the vantage point of the immediate postwar world of 1950. “Not one...

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The German Question

Tags: Big Government, World History

05/31/1946 • Wilhelm Röpke

The German Question by Wilhelm Röpke is the book that inspired the postwar economic reform in Germany — which Röpke himself did not believe had gone nearly far enough. It came out in 1945 in Switzerland, one year after Mises’s Omnipotent...

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

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07/23/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent...

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6.1. The German Youth Movement

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, World History

05/02/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

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

Tags: Political Theory, World History

05/02/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not only a government employee. He is also his own employer.