04/22/05

After all, the 20th century was a time when the world sung the praises of despots and despotism. The more wars government leaders fought, the more they centralized their control, the more they hobbled the economy, the more liberty they stole, the more they cut off trade and exchange with other nations, the more their gain was our liberty lost, the more these very government leaders have been celebrated by historians and pundits of all stripes. To continue the righting of great wrongs, I would like to tell you about another man who had started out with what seemed to be a simple vocation but eventually came to play a major role in the history of ideas in the world. His life would be dominated by terrible tragedy and yet come to represent a grand vision of the social and political future...

http://www.mises.org/story/1798

from Ludwig von Mises Institute, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp