By Ludwig von Mises
We won't take a seat less than Mises at his recognized Vienna deepest seminar. we won't return in time and attend his long island seminar, or stick with him to his conversing engagements that he held within the 50s and 60s.But due to this moment quantity in an exciting sequence (here is quantity one), we do have entry to what he stated. he's hot, humorous, passionate, and realized. This e-book offers a candid examine the guy and his educating sort. It demonstrates his astounding command over the cloth, and teaches in a breezier method than his treatises.This quantity comprises 9 lectures introduced over one week, from June 23, to July three, 1952, on the San Francisco Public Library. Mises used to be at his major as a instructor and lecturer. He stocks a life of studying on subject matters that have been (and stay) imperative to American public life.As the identify exhibits, his major concentration is on Marxism. He discusses Marx and his position within the heritage of principles, the destruction wrought via his risky ideology, the style during which his fans have coated up his mistakes, and the way the Marxists themselves have labored for therefore lengthy to avoid wasting Marxism from itself. He discusses Marxist claims approximately historical past and refutes the smear of the economic revolution.
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Most of the violent ideas of our times have come from men who themselves wouldn’t have been able to resist any aggression. Wilson accepted the doctrine of the Manchester Liberals, namely that so far as war was concerned, democracies don’t like to fight wars; democracies fight only wars of defense because the individual citizen cannot expect any improvement of his conditions from war, not even if his country is victorious. But Wilson didn’t see that this was true only in a world of free trade. He didn’t see that this was quite different already in the age in which he lived, which was an age of interventionism.
And in this country the Communists were against the New Deal. Of course, the real reason for their opposition to the government in power was very different. No opposition party wants to assign so much power to another party. In drafting socialist programs, everybody assumes tacitly that he himself will be the planner or the dictator, or that the planner or dictator will be intellectually completely dependent on him and that the planner or dictator will be his handyman. No one wants to be a single member in the planning scheme of somebody else.
The cheap prices of products were the means capitalism used to destroy nationalism. But in 1848, the average person didn’t know anything about Asia or Africa. Marx was even less informed than the average English businessman who knew something about business relations with China and India. The only attention Marx gave to this problem was his remark, later published by Vera Zasulich, to the effect that it might be possible for a country to skip the capitalist stage and proceed directly to socialism.