Marxism Unmasked; Hegel and worshipping the state
“The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.”
― Ludwig Von Mises
“Every socialist is a disguised dictator.”
― Ludwig von Mises
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
― Ludwig von Mises, BureaucracyMarxism Unmasked-book review
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
“The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
― Ludwig von Mises
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By Ludwig von Mises. Introduction by Richard M. Ebeling. Foundation for Economic Education, 2006. Xvii + 110 pages.] Marx embraced a crude version of materialism:
“Fashionable Western Marxists such as Erich Fromm have stressed Marx's humanism, principally on display in his early manuscripts, but Mises sees Marx differently. For him, Marx embraced a crude version of materialism:
According to Marx, everybody is forced — by the material productive forces — to think in a way that the result shows his class interests. You think in the way your "interests" force you to think… Your "interests" are something independent of your mind and your ideas. Consequently the production of your ideas is not truth. Before the appearance of Karl Marx, the notion of truth had no meaning for the whole historical period. What the thinking of the people produced in the past was "ideology," not truth. (p. 6)
Hegel was the man who destroyed German thinking and German philosophy for more than a century, at least. He found a warning in Immanuel Kant … who said the philosophy of history can be written only by a man who has the courage to pretend that he sees the world with the eyes of God. Hegel believed he had the "eyes of god," that he knew the end of history, that he knew the plans of God. (pp. 8–9)”
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Book: Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction - Ludwig von Mises
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Hegel: The State as God's Will
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 11 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995).]
“On Hegel's worship of the state, Popper cites chilling and revealing passages:
The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth … We must therefore worship the State as the manifestation of the Divine on earth … The State is the march of God through the world … The State must be comprehended as an organism … To the complete State belongs, essentially, consciousness and thought. The State knows what it wills … The State … exists for its own sake … The State is the actually existing, realized moral life.7”
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Hegel on Worshipping the State
So, what is real freedom to Hegel?
“It must further be understood that all the worth which the human being possesses—all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State.”
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Socialists or progressives or whatever one wants to call those worshippers of the state are my enemy. Why? Because of their being far or standing by idly the destruction of freedom for my family: my two sons and my family. They are of utmost importance to me; and socialists, whether with intent or with ignorance or idleness, are my enemies because of my family. JRD