{"product_id":"omnipotent-government-ludwig-von-mises-9781443726467","title":"Omnipotent Government","description":"Liberty is not, as the German precursors of Nazism asserted, a negative ideal. Whether a concept is presented in an affirmative or in a negative form is merely a question of idiom. Freedom from want is tantamount to the expression striving after a state of affairs under which people are better supplied with necessities. Freedom of speech is tantamount to a state of affairs under which everybody can say what he wants to say. At the bottom of all totalitarian doctrines lies the belief that the rulers are wiser and loftier than their subjects and that they therefore know better what benefits those ruled than they themselves. Werner Sombart, for many years a fanatical champion of Marxism and later a no less fanatical advocate of Nazism, was bold enough to assert frankly that the F?rer gets his orders from God, the supreme F?rer of the universe, and that F?rertum is a permanent revelation.* Whoever admits this, must, of course, stop questioning the expediency of government omnipotence. Those disagreeing with this theocratical justification of dictatorship claim for themselves the right to discuss freely the problems involved. They do not write state with a capital S. They do not shrink from analyzing the metaphysical notions of Hegelianism and Marxism. They reduce all this high-sounding oratory to the simple question: are the means suggested suitable to attain the ends sought? In answering this question, they hope to render a service to the great majority of their fellow men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ludwig Von Mises\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 144372646X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781443726467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lowe Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d","brand":"Ludwig Von Mises","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935081300223,"sku":"9781443726467","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8dd6a29d-cd2b-42f8-9b70-ee964e29d65a.jpg?v=1681417741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/omnipotent-government-ludwig-von-mises-9781443726467","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}