Added: Sep 5, 2008
From: misesmedia
Duration: 37:49
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.
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bejaar Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Ludwig von Mises was truly an American hero!
scientistwriter Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - he wasn't American but he sure understood the principles.
scotta999 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - The content and resources of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute can restore the basic principles and ideas of liberty and a truly free market society.Spread the word. Write it on the wall of the public bathrooms,put it on your email sigs, forward "daily articles", make copys of flyers. Do everything in your power to spread this wonderful wealth of info. In this day of info tech I believe that we may be on the verge of moving "towards freedom" if we "thrust ourselves into the intelectual battle".
DaBizWorks Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Mises needs continuation. I will undertake the study.
nurbSoldier Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - 99% of the time, deregulation is actually quite good. You are really bringing up the most extreme downsides of deregulation. With pollution, all you have to worry about are property rights. In other words, are you polluting someone else's property? If so, a person deserves legal punishment. Worker exploitation? How does one objectify such a concept? It is all a matter of opinion. Sometimes, cost cutting measures are quite good when it means that a business saves itself.
nurbSoldier Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Saying that Stalin and Mao weren't true Marxists: Just another variation of the 'No True Scotsman' mentality.
nurbSoldier Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - You are wrong about what you assert about Mises. Mises and other free marketeers had written extensively against corporatism and protectionism, which is what you are really complaining against. You are creating strawmen here.
nurbSoldier Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Get rid of at least the excessive amount of government (the kind that goes beyond the night watchman state) and you will find that most of the problems relating to corporations will disappear. To answer your question: No, many of the big shots who run corporations do NOT prefer anarchy... many actually stand behind growing the government (to suit their purposes of course).If you do not believe me, compare the corporate donations to Barack Obama vs. those to Ron Paul and Bob Barr.
davidjuliowang Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Fantastic.Another intellectual superhero.Communism. Fascism. Socialism. Capitalism.All these systems have one thing in common: the governing of people by appealing exclusively to logic, to the rational organization of human behavior.This ignores the fundamental core of humanity : feelings. Humanity's next evolutionary step is the incorporation and recongition of emotions as being the fundamental "fuel" for all human behavior. Freedom's next manifestation must be :Freedom to Feel.
davidjuliowang Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - I like your "gusto" my friend.Battle...It is interesting how replete our language is with violent symbology.Fighting appears in so much of our conversation. Battle for this. Fight for that.I wonder if that is genuinely what we do when we disagree with one another...Is it "fighting" or something more subtle...I wish I had a more extensive knowledge of thermodynamics. I'd prefer to express myself using the terminology of the relationship of energy, rather than subjective physicality.
AllFirstHand Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Does Central Planning ignore the needs of the people? Many believe that the contrary is true.
inkus2000 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Who hates he working class ? I do !I hope the working class never figure out that our theories are designed to justify the current status quo. Still it worries me that they may unify some day hmmm Lets come up with another crackpot theory - How about 'class dosn't exist' 'only individuals' ?
inkus2000 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - That way when they organize a working class movement we can remind them 'in a rather condescending manner' that class simply doesn't exist - upon this realization surely they'll put down their guns and return to their toil. Of course this would only work assuming the working class is stupid enough to buy into our self serving attempt at intellectual intimidation. I think we count on their stupidity as much as anything esp considering the amount of propaganda our media outlets subject them too.
inkus2000 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Of course they might still realize they can use the democratic/state institutions to further their interests. Hmm that could hurt profits. Lets come up with a theory that 'scientifically' proves that popular democratic action/wealth redistribution are counteractive to the public good. Of course lets hope that they arn't intelligent enough to gauge that such theories are founded on unrealisitic myths like perfect competition ect.
inkus2000 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Gentlemen, lets have a toast - to the preservation of wealth concentration and the subordination of the lower class's.Remember chaps be generous in your future donations to the Austrian school and other right wing thinktan/ I mean institutes - these crackpot theories of ours will never be acted upon less we give them proper financial clout. PS - Invest heavily in media outlets - nothing keeps Joe Blogs in the gutter better than simplistic propaganda.
Moragauth Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - This, all, from the king of copying and pasting, who cannot think for himself. Bitch, fuck off and leave the real men to do the intellectual heavy lifting, not your socialist twits, and you.
inkus2000 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Socialist ? What utter hogwash ! Im a right wing libertarian good sir.
inkus2000 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Does anyone know where I can ascertain that delightful song that plays at the beginning of the piece ?I would very much like to play it whilst I sip brandy and smoke my pipe by the fireplace.
BboyVIRTUE Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - And instead of arguing my point, six consecutive people just got frustrated and decided to hide the truth with negative votes... typical ignorant republicans...
BboyVIRTUE Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - This recession is you folks' fault (not that any of you suffered the consequences anyway...). California just lost vast swathes of teachers because of your decreased taxes and your deregulated banking policy.
rizkybusiness08 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - The Below 95% are Basically Mushroooms that are fed sh*t and and kept in the dark. The United States is a Debtor Nation with a completely Maxed out credit card but as long as the shrooms pay the Minimum payment you will be happily left alone to your toil.But when you default on your Loans the International bankers will buy your Tangible assets for pennies on the dollar.
FarFromEquilibrium Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Americans are going to have to control their impulsive spending, which cause the housing crisis and debt situations that spawned the current recession. Its not up to govt to keep holding everyone's hand and keeping them off the edge of the cliff. They will have major probblems if they dont act more rationally and make better infomrned decisions and many will also pay for the mistakes of others via general downturns.
FarFromEquilibrium Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Those are not in themselves desirable consequences but nanny govt-econ always collapses completely ===> thats worse and is not the way should go, or could go. Our education system deserves so heavy shakeup based on its current ineeficiency and yes it is worth the cost of disruption in the interest of getting things more funadamentally correc and fianacially sustainable. Beware of the state more than the *robber barons* if you value freedom it has personal responsibilities attatched.
datalorez Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - Mises was a true genius.
scottvanska Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - True. Ideologues aren't usually persuaded by reason.Mises was not a libertarian, he was an Austrian economist. The Austrian School begins with a de re modal proposition - man acts. It attempts to build a set of economic principles from that idea. The libertarian's philosophical starting point, OTOH, is that political reality is composed of individuals and their abstract natural rights. You can be an Austrian economist without being a libertarian.