The most important single work on right-collectivism is "Omnipotent Government" (1944) by Ludwig von Mises. The author himself, a lifetime opponent of socialism, was forced to flee his home in Vienna when the Nazi threat arrived. He left for Geneva in 1934 and came to the United States in 1940, where he went to work almost immediately, reconstructing the intellectual history and meaning of what was called fascism and Nazism. The study appeared just as the war was ending. Here Mises reveals the economics, politics, and cultural appeal, as well as the conditions, that led to the Nazi rise. He deals very frankly with issues like trade, race, market integration, Jewry, discrimination, class resentment, imperialism, demographic control, and the core illiberalism of rightist collectivism.
What you get out of this study: Mises will train your intellectual instincts to make sense out of what might seem like chaos around you. You will see patterns. You will see connections. You will see trajectories of thought and where they end up. In a strange way, then, the result of the work is to create a calming effect. It makes sense of the whole complicated mess. The study is also infused with an amazing and powerful passion that could only come from someone with his brilliance and direct and personal experience with the problem at hand. -- Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was an Austrian-American theoretical Austrian School economist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on behalf of classical liberalism. He is best known for his work on praxeology, a study of human choice and action.
Links to more online writings by Ludwig von Mises:
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
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Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
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Bureaucracy
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Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth
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The Theory of Money and Credit
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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction
A Hundred Years of Marxian Socialism
The Equations of Mathematical Economics and the Problem of Economic Calculation in a Socialist State
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
Epistemological Problems of Economics
Money, Method, and the Market Process
Epistemological Relativism in the Sciences of Human Action
Economic Freedom and Interventionism
Individualism and Civilization
Capitalism, Happiness, and Beauty
Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics
Liberty and Property
Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism
The Free Market and Its Enemies
Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition
Planned Chaos
Nation, State, and Economy
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
Planning for Freedom
Individuals, Reason, and Action
The Propaganda War Against Capitalism
How Liberty Defined Western Civilization
Related online resources:
Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero
Ludwig von Mises: Defender of Capitalism
Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
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My Years with Ludwig von Mises
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The Cultural Thought of Ludwig von Mises
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