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The Mises Insitute is now offering Ludwig von Mises' Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War, on the origins of Nazism, online.Now this book should be a compulsory reading for the crowd of (young, alas) lame-brain brawlers blindly worshipping José "Impunity" Bové and the anti-globalization gesellschaft who, among many other misconceptions, fail to apprehend - in the words of Murray Rothbard - that "nazism and fascism were totalitarian collectivist systems which had far more in common with communism than with free-market capitalism" and consistently avoid to notice that they share with German Socialists at the origin of Nazism the same hatred for Liberalism and free market economy.
Just a starter:
(Ferdinand) Lassalle's brief demagogical career is noteworthy because for the first time in Germany the ideas of socialism and etatism appeared on the political scene as opposed to liberalism and freedom. Lassalle was not himself a Nazi; but he was the most eminent forerunner of Nazism, and the first German who aimed at the Führer position. He rejected all the values of the Enlightenment and of liberal philosophy (...). He negated them; but he promised at the same time to realize them in a fuller and broader sense. Liberalism, he asserted, aims at spurious freedom, but I will bring you true freedom. And true freedom means the omnipotence of government. It is not the police who are the foes of liberty but the bourgeoisie.I do not forget the disciples of Arlette "Cry Me a River" Laguiller and Olivier "Bicycle Baby" Besancenot's new anti-capitalist sect, of course.
And it was Lassalle who spoke the words which characterize best the spirit of the age to come: "The state is God."
This is mandatory reading for them too.
Now what? Don't you like the authoritarian method anymore mate?
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