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At the close of the Second World War, Mises saw the destruction of the old world and the beginnings of a new one that did not look promising, especially for European politics. Socialism appeared to sweep all before it, and the social democratic variety in the West was not much of an improvement. Mises set out to explain and bitterly denounce the trends toward the total state, and demonstrate that Communism and Nazism were both species of interventionism.
Though Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom was more widely promoted, and achieved a far greater fame, this Mises work, which appeared in the same year, offers a more consistent critique of industrial central planning, warfare, and the welfare state. There are no concessions to the prevailing social democratic consensus, and Mises is no less harsh on interventionism of the democratic form. The last chapter is a prescient critique of the idea of world government, including world trade agreements.
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Omnipotent Government is not only a history of the fall of Germany, but also a powerful critique of the political, social, and economic ideologies that have shaped Western history in the last two hundred years. The ordeal of two World Wars, according to Mises, was the inevitable result of ideologies that call upon government for the management of human affairs. People today hail every step toward more government as "progress," and call for more laws, regulations, and their enforcement by courts and police. They are yearning for Caesar. They forget the consequences of total government. Omnipotent Government is a potent reminder.
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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
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Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. "The Rise of the Total State and Total War." Analytical history of the rise of the National Socialist Party to power in Germany. Shows the antecedants in the growth of socialized industry in the German Empire, economic planning during World War I, and the invocation of racial collectivism in support of the Nazi attack on capitalism. First published in 1944, it showed the growth of similar trends in American and British collectivism. Current print of new edition in 1985. xi+306 pages, index. Seller Inventory # 016741
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