Per Bylund asks us to

>look at what Mises actually writes about fascism in Liberalism (1927, pp.
>25-30). It actually sorts things out and makes any claims of fascism
>advocacy fall flat.

And the answer is . . .

>the Fascists carry on their work among nations in which the intellectual
>and moral heritage of some thousands of years of civilization cannot be
>destroyed at one blow, and not among the barbarian peoples on both sides
>of the Urals, whose relationship to civilization has never been any other
>than that of marauding denizens of forest and desert accustomed to
>engage, from time to time, in predatory raids on civilized lands in the
>hunt for booty. 

Per's comment is . . .

>I grant that the wording is not what we would expect from a 21st century
>point of view (it is perhaps even offensive)

And my question is . . .

What did Mises (or, if you will, von Mises) have to say in 1941 and after,
when the inheritors of "some thousands of years of civilisation" were
demonstrating their higher culture to "the barbarian peoples on both sides
of the Urals"?

Best wishes,

Julian Wells




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