Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I'll try to limit my quotes from the Mises Institute's

Daily Articles to one per week, but here's a good one, from Our Kind of Central Planning by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.:
Some people say that the real problem with the Bush administration is that it is too far left, and that a genuine right-wing government would be better. I'm disinclined to believe that, for I detect in the Bush administration a particular philosophy of governance that departs from that of the Clinton regime in many ways, except in its unlimited faith in government, that is, force and the threat of force.
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In the American postwar tradition, the political Right has been a mix of genuine libertarian elements together with some very dangerous tendencies. Mises wrote in Omnipotent Government that there is a breed of warmonger who sees war not as an evil to be avoided as much as possible, but rather a productive and wonderful event that gives life meaning. To these people — and Mises of course was speaking of Nazis — war and all its destruction is a high achievement, something necessary to bring out the best in man and society, something wonderful and necessary to push history and culture forward.

I hear the kind of thing he's talking about on talk radio every day.

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