Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War - Ludwig von Mises Audiobook
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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 defects in the German national character. Instead, he looks to the rise of a malignant ideology, which he terms etatism.
Mises begins by showing how Prussian liberalism collapsed. Intellectuals spurned the free market in favor of schemes, lacking all support in sound economic theory, which stressed the role of the state in promoting national power and prosperity.
The Nazi system developed and extended the earlier etatist trends of the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine epochs. Hitler claimed, in classic etatist fashion, that Germany needed to expand in order to feed its growing population. Hitler’s idea made sense within his etatist presuppositions: in order to see what is wrong with it, one needs to understand correct economic theory. This teaches that free trade, not conquest of foreign territories, is the best means to advance prosperity.
Mises resolutely rejects the Marxist canard that Nazism was an expression of monopoly capitalism. To the contrary, Nazism was a form of socialism: the forms of private property were retained, but control and planning were in the hands of the state.
Mises concludes with a discussion of reform measures to be undertaken after the hostilities of World War II end. He calls for peace and the free market and subjects to withering criticism proposals for global central planning.
Omnipotent Government displays to the full Mises’s immense historical knowledge and his unrivaled grasp of economic principles. It is an indispensable guide to understanding nineteenth and twentieth-century European history.
This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
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| Comment: | 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 defects in the German national character. Instead, he looks to the rise of a malignant ideology, which he terms etatism.
Mises begins by showing how Prussian liberalism collapsed. Intellectuals spurned the free market in favor of schemes, lacking all support in sound economic theory, which stressed the role of the state in promoting national power and prosperity. The Nazi system developed and extended the earlier etatist trends of the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine epochs. Hitler claimed, in classic etatist fashion, that Germany needed to expand in order to feed its growing population. Hitler’s idea made sense within his etatist presuppositions: in order to see what is wrong with it, one needs to understand correct economic theory. This teaches that free trade, not conquest of foreign territories, is the best means to advance prosperity. Mises resolutely rejects the Marxist canard that Nazism was an expression of monopoly capitalism. To the contrary, Nazism was a form of socialism: the forms of private property were retained, but control and planning were in the hands of the state. Mises concludes with a discussion of reform measures to be undertaken after the hostilities of World War II end. He calls for peace and the free market and subjects to withering criticism proposals for global central planning. Omnipotent Government displays to the full Mises’s immense historical knowledge and his unrivaled grasp of economic principles. It is an indispensable guide to understanding nineteenth and twentieth-century European history. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. |
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This post has 43 comments with rating of 3/5
July 29th, 2021
Damn that orange ape! Wait - the name and picture was misleading, I thought this was about Trump and his followers. I apologize.
July 29th, 2021
@illodiini -
Just as blind as ever.
July 29th, 2021
How dare ya?! That Viking has Odin’s eye.
This could be a good companion to Arendt.
July 29th, 2021
Looks like we could use a high-school refresher on basic political theory:
“The fundamental differences between left-wing and right-wing ideologies center around the the rights of individuals vs. the power of the government. Left-wing beliefs are liberal in that they believe society is best served with an expanded role for the government. People on the right believe that the best outcome for society is achieved when individual rights and civil liberties are paramount and the role — and especially the power — of the government is minimized.”
July 29th, 2021
@[email protected]: putting your unsourced definition in quotes doesn’t make it official.
The idea that the “right” has a monopoly on “individual rights and civil liberties” is contentious, to say the least. viz: the guy starring in the above book. And current efforts by the US right to negate elections and voting rights.
July 29th, 2021
Especially since fascism is a right wing ideology.
July 29th, 2021
There’s a STRONG correlation between red states and:
- anti-abortion legislation
- reluctancy to allow LGBTQ+ people the same rights as straight people
- stripping away people’s healthcare
- reluctancy to legalize marijuana
- restricting how easy it is for people to vote
- private prisons.
Doesn’t come across like they’re big fans of civil liberties and individual rights to me.
July 29th, 2021
Like Arendt, I would take totalitarian ideological systems to be a l/r limit case. All manifestly evil, of course. On the thesis, Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, N Korea, etc. would have benefited - or benefit - from more limited govt & increased human rights. Or any rights at all, ftm.
July 29th, 2021
@Gweilo - The source is https://www.diffen.com/difference/Left_Wing_vs_Right_Wing.
I didn’t think there was anything biased or controversial - Left-wing want an expanded role for the government while the right believe in a minimized government. The right is concerned with ‘individual rights’ while the left is concerned with ‘group rights’.
July 29th, 2021
@redstar1970 - If you put fascism (national socialism) at the far right of your spectrum and communism (international socialism) on the left, then you would have to put different levels of Fabian socialm in the middle. That would leave you with an entirely socialist worldview.
July 29th, 2021
The guy featured on the book’s cover was the founder of the NSDAP - National German Socialist Workers Party - nicknamed Nazis by detractors. He was a racist, nationalist socialist. Left-wing for certain, but German and anti-semitic. Look at GB Shaw, for instance to find another racist socialist. There were many.
July 29th, 2021
@Poppy7 No, the Nazis were definitely not left-wing. They were the far right, and denying that is showing your ignorance. They were socialist in the same way the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are democratic. As in, they weren’t.
Look at who’s flying nazi flags these days. It isn’t the left. Never was, and never will be.
July 29th, 2021
Bless, they’re still pretending that the “National Socialists” weren’t left-wing.
In the same way, they pretend that the Democrats weren’t the party of the KKK because there was an imaginary side switch.
July 29th, 2021
So far today we’ve had “The KKK were formed by the Democrat party” and “The Nazis were left-wing” on this site.
Check out who was at the Unite The Right rallies. The alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Klansmen.
These are your people. Own it.
July 29th, 2021
It is a great deal more complex than imposing expedient demarcations & ideological breaks. It’s notoriously difficult to distinguish the toxic ideologies in practice. Goebbels’ position on socialism is symptomatic of that ambiguous blurring.
So many qualities are shared in the cross-fertilisation (term used advisedly), but the essence is the brute power of the state to crush dignified, individual autonomy & the ability/will to resist. Arendt is superb on the subject.
July 29th, 2021
Lol. I don’t have “people”. Sorry Jack, I know that you sheep follow but some of us prefer not to - recognizing that both “sides” are full of toxic clowns with no new ideas or anything of value to say, but desperate to exert power over others to prove how terrible they can be compared to the last guy.
As for whose people these are? They’re the left’s people. Own it. Stop running away from the past and own it.
July 29th, 2021
@GordonCoon Your lack of self-awareness truly is incredible.
You fell for one of the dumbest lies the right-wing echo chamber created, and you want to buy it so badly that you’re overlooking that right now, in America, the very people you’re calling left-wing are counter-protesting left-wing marches and openly endorsing Republicans. The leader of the KKK endorsed Trump. The people in the robes and flying nazi flags are the far-right.
Search for “Nazi flags and KKK at rally” in Google images. See how many of them are at pro-Democrat rallies. They’re nearly exclusively Trump supporters.
As for you not having ‘people’. That’s no shock. You keep alienating the only groups dense enough to take you by calling them left-wing.
July 29th, 2021
@abb: “ the government while the right believe in a minimized government. The right is concerned with ‘individual rights’ while the left is concerned with ‘group rights’.”
Just because to say it, does not make it true.
Anyway, the right in general does not respect individual rights.It respects the rights of rich individuals. And they love big government. The military has a huge share of the budget, and they love throwing money at it.
But we could snipe at each other all day. Pointless.
In the words of Giuliani, we need Trial by Combat!
July 29th, 2021
This claim that the right wants limited government control is absurd.
They favor legal restrictions on a childbearing person’s right to choose. Up to and including mandating unnecessary, invasive medical procedures in the interest of emotional blackmail. That’s government control, and (since any government control requires bureaucratic support) it expands the size and role of government.
They favor legal restrictions on who uses what restroom and who plays which sport and with whom, up to and including examinations of a participants genitalia to make sure they “qualify”. That, too, expands the size and role of government and curtails individual freedom.
They favor legal restrictions on whether or not a person can partake of recreational cannabis in the privacy of their own home or in the company of friends (in the privacy of the friend’s home.) That’s government control.
They favor restricting fact-based sexual education, and fact-based historical education, and fact-based scientific education, and they favor replacing those proscribed subjects with ideological twaddle. That’s government control.
They don’t favor “individual liberty” or a smaller government with limited scope at all.
They favor the preservation of power for the wealthy, even if it means those wealthy, in pursuit of their “individual liberty”, trample the “individual liberties” of others.
They favor the rights of the wealthy to fail to pay their share of taxes. which in fact tramples on the “individual liberty” of everyone else to traverse bridges that aren’t crumbling, or afford rent, food, and health care, or attend schools that are structurally sound.
They favor the power of the wealthy to trample the “individual liberty” of people to work jobs that pay a living wage, or raise the children (which they can’t afford but are availed of few, if any, options to avoid) in a world that fraught with the chaos that will be engendered by climate change.
They favor allowing anyone [provided they’re white] to buy any weapon for any reason, even if their ability to do so tramples the “individual rights” of children to attend school without being afraid of being murdered in a mass shooting.
Let’s dispense of this myth that right right favor LESS government control. What they favor is the CONSOLIDATION of government control in the hands of the wealthy white, and to hell with everyone else.
July 29th, 2021
@ChazWylde448 your a truth teller!
July 29th, 2021
Von Mises was hardly an objective authority on WWII - he was an Austrian School economist, so he comes into the discussion on the causes of the World War with a heavy bias, and should be read in that light.
More generally, the biggest problem in modern politics is putting all political thought on a single axis. Arguments about whether the left or right is more authoritarian and statist are an utter waste of time. There are forms of authoritarianism on both the left and the right, just as there are forms of libertarian thought on both sides of the left-right spectrum. from the wiki page I link below:
“Political scientists have frequently noted that a single left–right axis is too simplistic and insufficient for describing the existing variation in political beliefs and included other axes. Although the descriptive words at polar opposites may vary, the axes of popular biaxial spectra are usually split between economic issues (on a left–right dimension) and socio-cultural issues (on an authority–liberty dimension).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
I like the Political Compass approach to a multi-spectrum description of politics, but there are others, and it’s definitely worth exploring.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/
July 29th, 2021
Try this
http://factmyth.com/the-left-right-political-spectrum-explained/
If you’re anywhere between 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock on the first chart (which shows that it’s more of a circle than a straight line) you’re bad news.
Clearly compiled with a US bias because of the nutty colours used. The grown-up world uses red for left wing and blue for right.
July 29th, 2021
@valkyrie - You’re dangerously coherent for this here site. It’ll never last.
Political compass is an interesting resource; it can generate peculiar results/outcomes in, for inst, the context of my own national locale. P’haps it’s weighted towards a US perspective.
July 30th, 2021
@caesar963 - I know what you mean…my closest match whenever I do the Political Compass comes out as Gandhi. (Yes, honestly).
That should trigger the followers of the tangerine tw*t!
July 30th, 2021
@siadwell - nice link. Thanks!
@caesar963 - I’m just here for the audiobooks. ;-P
Unfortunately toxic left-right absolutism is pretty dominant in political discourse nowadays, very much how it was in the run-up to WWII. Hopefully we can escape a similar outcome, which is why I think it’s important to engage in these sorts of conversations despite how messy they can get. As for the Political Compass, they used to have some really nice pages on their site analysing various historical figures, political parties and countries. I found many of them quite surprising, but for the most part I agreed with them once I read into those people or groups a bit more. Unfortunately the modern site seems to have dropped a lot of those more general discussions in favour of election analyses, which don’t explore the idea nearly as well IMO.
July 30th, 2021
@Siadwell - Gotta love the Mahatma - hoo doesn’t?! Probably points to the phact that you’re mighty peaceable, pardner. Pity the dood who got saddled with Pitt the Elder & Lord Palmerston (because of how he imprudently responded to the Corn Laws question).
@valkyrie - Added to that, our aggressive internet speeds are so much more speedy than those of the benighted denizens of the ’30s. So we can hardly staunch the flow of the fibre optic bilious bile ‘n vitriolic venom. WWIII would certainly cramp our crimp.
July 30th, 2021
@Gweilo - We could try a thought experiment. Let us say all our private property has been abolished. How confident do you feel now with your individual rights?
Do you trust the government to be your provider and protector? Hundreds of millions in Russia and China did and were ‘purged’ because their group was not convenient to the state.
July 30th, 2021
@[email protected] I fail to see how your “thought experiments” have any relation to any policy advocated by any real person.
Just the usual fearmongering “they want to take our guns and bibles and force us to have abortions and not eat burgers; human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together .. ” etc. nonsense.
Or, you say Stalin and Mao, I raise you Hitler and Pinochet.
July 30th, 2021
@[email protected] if you shift to the other end of that thought extreme, don’t you get a toothless government which can’t/wont uphold the law, megacorporations and private militias? You should see how well that’s going for the people in Columbia at the moment.
July 30th, 2021
Just… wow.
July 30th, 2021
@valkyrie_odinsdottir thanks for the site link. I am pretty much what I thought I am (queue eminem song)
Economic Left/Right: -5.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41
July 30th, 2021
Yeh, I know it’s going to be subjective, but I feel it has acurately described my personal opinions, beliefs, etc. So, a +1 from me.
July 30th, 2021
Ah here we go with more of the absolute nonsense.
July 30th, 2021
Oh and shut up caesar. You write like you’re tossing yourself to international relations textbooks. Communicate like a regular human being.
July 30th, 2021
Oh, so we should all express ourselves as subliterate, bigoted, anti-Semitic, genocide-denying, tabloid hacks? Good to know - now you can put your ass-ertion over there, with all the other Nat-toady garbage.
He “listens to the books he comments on” - yeah, sure…
July 30th, 2021
toadmanga, thank dog (esp. Springers) for the (suspected) genius of caesar et al. The comments are a refreshing place to be educated and intellectucally stimulated in an otherwise cesspit of (suspected) inbred mongrels.
July 30th, 2021
Steady on, Tiger, fanatical toady prefers the more PC term “consanguinous canine” - after all it’s how he signs all hate-mail & death threats (in his obligatory green ink).
Speaking of cesspits, he’ll likely target u with a bit of his seemingly inexhaustible high-sterical hatred. Especially if u don’t agree that genocide is “historical revisionism.”Well, you did mention cesspit…
July 30th, 2021
:p
August 1st, 2021
How can you just lie like that?
August 1st, 2021
…said your critical inner voice.
August 4th, 2021
Ah, GordonLoon is here, the one who thinks Greenland is green because it says so in the name.
August 4th, 2021
What about Iceland, and so forth? Going to need an urgent update on Iceland?
August 4th, 2021
I see a lot of green in Greenland’s future. That, and submersion.
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