monikaco on Nostr: “As Mises pointed out, “It is impossible to understand the mentality and the ...
“As Mises pointed out, “It is impossible to understand the mentality and the policy of the Progressives if one does not take into account that the Communist Manifesto is for them both manual and holy writ, the only reliable source of information about mankind’s future as well as the ultimate code of political conduct.”
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But there is another, equally compelling reason for carefully studying Mises’s great treatise. It is the antidote to the real and immediate threat to human liberty and society represented by the pernicious social philosophy of progressivism. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and other Communist regimes, almost all variants of leftism abandoned Marxism and gathered under the banner of progressivism, especially in Western countries, where they achieved a powerful influence on policy via democratic elections. Indeed, progressivism is far more insidious than Marxism precisely because it rejects class conflict and bloody revolution and fervently embraces democracy as the true path to the perfection of the human race. Progressives view history as an inevitable onward and upward march to a utopian future, an egalitarian socialist state efficiently run by disinterested bureaucrats, intellectuals, and technocrats.
Salerno, Joseph T., “Why Human Action Is Now More Timely then Ever,” The Misesian 1, no. 3 (May / June 2024): 14–20.
#Praxeology
#Progressivism
@mises #josephtsalerno
https://mises.org/misesian/why-human-action-now-more-timely-ever
[…]
But there is another, equally compelling reason for carefully studying Mises’s great treatise. It is the antidote to the real and immediate threat to human liberty and society represented by the pernicious social philosophy of progressivism. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and other Communist regimes, almost all variants of leftism abandoned Marxism and gathered under the banner of progressivism, especially in Western countries, where they achieved a powerful influence on policy via democratic elections. Indeed, progressivism is far more insidious than Marxism precisely because it rejects class conflict and bloody revolution and fervently embraces democracy as the true path to the perfection of the human race. Progressives view history as an inevitable onward and upward march to a utopian future, an egalitarian socialist state efficiently run by disinterested bureaucrats, intellectuals, and technocrats.
Salerno, Joseph T., “Why Human Action Is Now More Timely then Ever,” The Misesian 1, no. 3 (May / June 2024): 14–20.
#Praxeology
#Progressivism
@mises #josephtsalerno
https://mises.org/misesian/why-human-action-now-more-timely-ever