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Saturday, August 24, 2013

The Economic Philosopher's Outcast: Mises

Steve Mariotti - Huffington Post 08/21/2013  
SS Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler’s agents sped through the streets of Vienna on an early morning, March 11, 1938, to capture and eliminate Nazi Germany’s enemies. One of his prime targets lived in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood at 28 Weihoffen St. Apartment 7. Ludwig von Mises, a 58-year-old political philosopher, was Jewish and defenseless. Hitler deemed this man an enemy of the state and one of the top targets to be seized during the Nazi takeover of Austria. Fleeing from the city the day before, Professor Mises narrowly escaped to Switzerland.
Despite attempts on his life, Mises born in 1881, spent the 92 years of his life fighting totalitarianism that fed the actions of the Nazis, Marxist Socialists and other fringe groups. He believed that any kind of authoritarian government infringed on peopleĆ¢€™s rights to worship, free speech, the right to travel and own businesses, all of which were banned by the National Socialists and Bolsheviks….To Read More….

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