What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As this unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a man who never stopped fighting for freedom: not when the Nazis burned his books, not when the Left blackballed him at universities, not when it seemed as if statism had won. With courage and genius, he fought big government until the day he died … in 25 books, hundreds of articles, and more than 60 years of teaching. Mises’s battles against Communists, Nazis, and other socialists, are featured in this film, as are his ideas of Liberty. There is also the old Vienna he loved, the Bolshevik prime minister he dissuaded from Communism, and a cast of villains from Lenin to Hitler, as well as such supporters and students as Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Bettina Greaves, M. Stanton Evans, Mary Peterson, Joseph Sobran, and Yuri Maltsev. Among his many accomplishments, Mises showed that socialism had to fail, that central banking causes recessions and depressions, that the gold standard is honest money, and that only laissez-faire capitalism is fully compatible with Western civilization. Mises was the twentieth century’s foremost economist, and one of its most important champions of Liberty. Here is a film that does justice to this extraordinary man, and to his equally extraordinary ideas.
Liberty and Economics
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It was Alexander the Great that gave gold it’s worth. It seemed out to work well, but it’s nothing more than papermoney nowadays. For instance we traded grains and mirrors for gold in the past. Why? Because they didnt had a clue and thought we were stupid.
If nobody told you gold was worth something, it would be nothing more than some useless metal that got pissed on. We trust in both that it’s worth something.
NY state and Texas should join Holland. 2 biggest world ports. 2 financial centres. Oil, gas, the whole network on electricity in Europe (we don’t need GB.. fuckers are worse than Greece).
The problem with that theorisation, that capitalism is essentially good but with true laissez-faire we’ll lose capitalism and revert to statism, is that it kind of ignores the fact that the problems which induce coercion between humans are both alleviated by market relations and the phenomenon of harmony of interest in the division of labour AND exacerbated by coercive attempts to ‘ameliorate’ the market which is something whose competitiveness can only be weakened by the intervention ofcoercion
The problem with that theorisation, that capitalism is essentially good but with true laissez-faire we’ll lose capitalism and revert to statism, is that it kind of ignores the fact that the problems which induce coercion between humans are both alleviated by market relations and the phenomenon of harmony of interest in the division of labour AND exacerbated by coercive attempts to ‘ameliorate’ the market which is something whose competitiveness can only be weakened by the intervention ofcoercion
The problem with that theorisation, that capitalism is essentially good but with true laissez-faire we’ll lose capitalism and revert to statism, is that it kind of ignores the fact that the problems which induce coercion between humans are both alleviated by market relations and the phenomenon of harmony of interest in the division of labour AND exacerbated by coercive attempts to ‘ameliorate’ the market which is something whose competitiveness can only be weakened by the intervention ofcoercion
@Nintendomanwill
Fundamental Religion is a ‘throwback’ to Neanderthal Man.
Well, that wouldn’t be very Misesian now would it?
so excellent! i just got done listening to ‘human action’ by mises. it is available for free on itunes. it should be required reading, seriously.
Excellent! I can’t imagine what he would have thought of the modern way of digital exchange of currency and how that effects our humanity. Sigh…I must finally read his writings.
Decent vid, but I can hardly stand when people use the term “free market”. The correct terms are “fair market” and “free enterprise”.
i blame an insufficient education of economic principles for the deep comatosis of the modern USA citizenry.
@jolow2
Give it a few more years and I’m almost certain he will be.
The really sound great ideas are often ignored in favour of some bunk.
I call it the Hegel vs. Schopenhauer effect. S. was ignored in favour of obscurantism that sounded nice but people saw through it eventually.
Big Religion is not an “atavisim”–it is a business in every sense of the word–for profit. It’s part of the show.
“God Bless America.” 99% of politicians repeat it when they think they need to. Insulting vel-doodle.
Our economics is likened to a cannabalistic nature of no true principles which are to preserve the natures of mind, consumption of mind is the loss in liberty, its not what we do but how we feel about it and obviously many people simply are seeking resolution yet we are not unified in diplomacy based upon the commonality of the root nature in economic structure, which is what I am defining through a metaphysical science and Egonomics, otherwise we continue to be the servant to the master…lol
That’s precisely it though! Religion is an atavistic throwback to an era in which men could not explain the well-being that arose through adhering to property-rights, and could not understand the phenomena of nature nor the economic phenomenon of societal co-operation. Even today people do not understand the powerful catallaxy of men seeking profit in the division of labour because it is something so extra to the individual-it is the INTERpersonal order so statists look to govt, theists see god.
athiest is Ok because there is more to that God issue than what meets the eye, God has never been proved or disproved to exist, it is the greater defintion to the use of the word,IE God to me is simply the nature of reality, reality is simply something out of nothing which is the nature of a miracle or the undefinable, the bible even concurs with you which I can prove, the use of God as an authority is a part of a splinter process in knowing what we do not know the mystery of God or invisibleone
There is more to the definition of liberty than what meets the eye, we are also at a crossroads which has never been seen or met in history and there is more to the way ideological opinion rules through force in economics the issue is that there is no definition to purpose and therefore we are guided by force in law where liberty is being miscontrued, the basis to addiction is due to the lack in defining the natures to our relationships largely due to relgious ideals, athiest is ok,
@NeoOneOrg
True but that bubble bursts if the people act on the cognition that liberty is more productive. Morality is based in productivity, I hold a rationalist, humanist viewpoint as regards the origin of morality because I am an extreme libertarian and an atheist. So I am not pessimistic in that if a state grows and its people become poor, it is more likely to fall as its revenues fall and as other nations grow relatively far more powerful for being more free. Natural selection is key.
This was a great man.
I wish he was honored and respected more.
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, besides blaming inequality and not poverty is like blaming envy for the lack of material progress in a society.
The state is supposed to protect your rights (in a ideal world) not make you its slave.
Big Religion (all human-centered) means Big Overpopulation which requires Big Govt/Big Police to control. Keeping 8,000,000,000 Homo Sapien in reasonable harmony really has nothing to do with “socialism.”
No I don’t. Google keywords yourself and find the reference, it’s only hit every major news outlet at one point or another
2nd Corinthians III, explains the Vail of Moses and the Jewish doctrines which blind people, this also defines what liberty really means, its not movement but the unrestricted mind, today economics is consuming people due to inflation which was allowed, and by that accound alone we have the right to abolish the machine and form a new government economy…The economy is human extentions physical and perceptive, and this relates to the 666 when the machines take over our structures like corps…
Bigger government simply shows that the people are becoming a bigger business tthrough their transfers of nature, Inalienable implies what? The issue is that we have been subversivly doctrined to socialistic reforms to grow the social bubble dividing the unity of the people into a bubble thats going to continue to lead to moral and ethical disparity causing the use of more law and government, because there is no instructions manual based in a true religion of applied principles…
So, it would appear, according to these gentlemen, that the Statists and Syndicalists “hated von Mises to pieces.”
(courtesy of Jinks the Cat + meeces Dixie & Pixie)