The Political Consequences of the Welfare State | Ludwig von Mises 

In 2015, I went on a bender and downloaded every Rothbard audio file from Mises.org so it's great to get "new" content for my long drives to work.

LibertyinourLifetime just posted three awesome audiobooks of rothbard essays. One on the public debt, one on the Clinton healthcare and one on taxes

He regularly cracks jokes in lectures, remarkable for someone who had such an unhappy life as he did.

@@martonk Excuse my ignorance. How did he have an unhappy life? Kind regards.

@@pablocalderon648 Well firstly he was ostracised from the Viennese jewish community because he was not a socialist (nor a businessman). Then he never got a payed university tenure "just" a private docenture at the university of Vienna. Then as the nazis invaded he could only escape Austria in a nick of time, his house and his assets were seazed, and I believe some of his relatives were killed. Then through switzerland went to the US where he never got the distinction he deserved, had to teach at a trade school and subsist off of friendly donations in simple circumstances. Hayek reports that he was treated pretty badly all through his life and as a result was for a long time a quite embittered man.

@martonk wow... thanks for the information. What a brilliant man. So sad for him.

@ Harry MIlls....Does that include Israel? Which subsist in a Welfare state on about $3B dollars of tax payer money a year.

@@pfunk42 All foreign aid should end, now.

Well said.

Right. Almost $30 trillion now. America is, no doubt, under judgment. A decadent people, decadent leaders, and a decadent government.

@Karl Marx but why doesn’t Soviet allow Mises books and speech to spread but capitalism country allow das kapital ?

@Karl Marx so what is his job? Tell me. Fascist is Italian not German why did he work for Italian ideology? Engels was capitalist too

@Karl Marx and what you say only means fascism is scared of Marxism. I don’t know what you want to convey to me

@Karl Marx I forgot the details but the main story is that Mises success fully conveyed one of Austrian minister not to turn into Marxism country. I don’t know what government you are pointing at. I searched your word Austro fascism but it tells fatherland front which started from 1933. But wiki says “In 1934, Mises left Austria for Geneva, Switzerland, where he was a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies until 1940.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises

Ludwig Von Mises was a card-carrying member of the "Fatherland Front" fascist party. We still have his membership number of both the party & the fascist social club "On 1 March 1934, at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce where [Von Mises] worked as a business sector lobbyist, Mises became member 282632 of the Patriotic Front and member number 406183 of Werk Neues Leben the official Fascist social club (Hülsmann 2007, 677, n149)." Mises' fascist party membership cards can still be seen in his archives in Pennsylvania Mises was pro-fascism & anti-communism. That should clue you in right there This is what Ludwig Von Mises wrote about fascism in 1927: "It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization."

@@wtfhah ludwig von mises was littlely Jewish and your trying to tell me he was a facist 💀💀

@@inmemoryofjstark7893 not all fascism is anti-semitism... in fact when the Nazis first started to really put their anti-semitism in the forefront, Italy's fascists distanced themselves from the German phenomenon in the mid-1920s Because Mussolini had power-broker & industrialist Jewish fascist supporters in his government Nazis even went so far as to discard the name "Fascisti"

@@wtfhah that still doesn't prove mises was a facist hell he criticizes facism and national socialism in his book liberalism in the classic tradition

@@inmemoryofjstark7893 Mises' membership in the Austrian Fascist Party proves he was a fascist lol, little more evidence is necessary Karl Polanyi himself says that Mises was a fascist & that fascism is the "safeguard" liberal economics His very words