Today, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises are as crucial as ever. During his profession, he discredited the ideas of socialism, identified the function central banks play in producing financial booms and busts, and developed himself as the most powerful defender of industrialism.
But maybe his essential analysis was available in a speech he delivered in 1950, The Middle of the Roadway Causes Socialism. You can get a copy for yourself today with a $5 contribution to the Mises Institute.
In this speech, delivered to the New York University Club, Mises identified the risks of the ideology that captured the world in the twentieth century: interventionism. As he notes, interventionism is often packaged as a practical “3rd way,” beyond the “extremes” of socialism or laissez-faire. Rather, nevertheless, the result is a volatile financial system that undoubtedly causes a growing number of government control– unless it is turned down totally.
Now, in 2021, this work is as crucial as ever.
As we have seen over the previous 2 years, prospective central coordinators in nationwide federal governments and globalist organizations are looking for to use the veil of crisis to combine their power on an international scale.
The goal isn’t to explicitly seize the means of production. Rather, it is to gradually combine financial power within nominally personal companies which can be more easily managed to serve their political program.
“Covid,” “worldwide warming,” “overpopulation,” “domestic extremism”– the crisis may alter, but the playbook remains the exact same. Reject consumer-driven markets in favor of a government-driven program and utilize the resulting chaos to expand the control of state institutions.
Mises comprehended it doesn’t have to be this way.” [T] his outcome is not inescapable. The pattern can be reversed as was the case with lots of other patterns in history.”
How? By individuals, like yourself, arming each other with the intellectual tools needed to determine and react to this sneaking authoritarianism. The difficulties we deal with will not be fixed with shallow bumper stickers and the façade of democratic elections, but by inspiring brand-new generations of courageous people prepared to withstand.
This is the objective of the Mises Institute.
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