The most important single work on right-collectivism is "Omnipotent Government" by Ludwig von Mises. The author himself, a lifetime opponent of socialism, was forced to flee his home in Vienna when the Nazi threat arrived. He left for Geneva in 1934 and came to the United States in 1940, where he went to work almost immediately, reconstructing the intellectual history and meaning of what was called fascism and Nazism.

The study appeared just as the war was ending. Here Mises reveals the economics, politics, and cultural appeal, as well as the conditions, that led to the Nazi rise. He deals very frankly with issues like trade, race, market integration, Jewry, discrimination, class resentment, imperialism, demographic control, and the core illiberalism of rightist collectivism.

What you get out of this study: Mises will train your intellectual instincts to make sense out of what might seem like chaos around you. You will see patterns. You will see connections. You will see trajectories of thought and where they end up. In a strange way, then, the result of the work is to create a calming effect. It makes sense of the whole complicated mess. The study is also infused with an amazing and powerful passion that could only come from someone with his brilliance and direct and personal experience with the problem at hand. -- Jeffrey A. Tucker

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Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was an Austrian-American theoretical Austrian School economist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on behalf of classical liberalism. He is best known for his work on praxeology, a study of human choice and action.

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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
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Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
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Bureaucracy
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Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth
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The Theory of Money and Credit
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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
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Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction
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A Hundred Years of Marxian Socialism
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The Equations of Mathematical Economics and the Problem of Economic Calculation in a Socialist State
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Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
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Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
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Epistemological Problems of Economics
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Money, Method, and the Market Process
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Economic Freedom and Interventionism
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Individualism and Civilization
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Capitalism, Happiness, and Beauty
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Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics
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Liberty and Property
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Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism
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The Free Market and Its Enemies
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Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition
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Planned Chaos
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Nation, State, and Economy
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The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
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Planning for Freedom
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The Propaganda War Against Capitalism
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How Liberty Defined Western Civilization
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Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero
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Ludwig von Mises: Defender of Capitalism
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Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
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My Years with Ludwig von Mises
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The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions
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