Ludwig von Mises begins his book Bureaucracy by declaring that the main issue facing the West in his time was whether man should surrender his liberty to the “gigantic apparatus of compulsion and coercion, the socialist state.” He rephrases: “Should [man] be deprived of his most precious privilege to choose means and ends and to shape his own life?”This question is imminently pressing in the modern day as well, save that we in the West, eight decades later, are teetering on the precipice of complete tyranny—the fate that Mises wrote to avoid. Perhaps most tragically, he thought that “America alone” was free to decide its path on the crossroads to either liberty or tyranny. In retrospect, America has chosen the latter. Any man who values liberty and his homeland must therefore work to
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