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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
Author(s) Ludwig von Mises
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Nazism, Nationalism, Socialism, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany
Genre(s) Non-fiction
Publisher Yale University Press, Libertarian Press
Publication date 1944
Pages ix, 291 pp
ISBN NA
OCLC Number 967870

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War is a book by Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises first published in 1944 by Yale University Press. It is one of the most influential writings in Right-libertarian social thought and critique of statist ideology and socialism, examining the rise of Nazism as an example. The book treats Nazism as a species of orthodox socialist theory. At the same time the book offers a critique of economic interventionism, industrial central planning, the welfare state and world government, denouncing the trends of the Western Allies towards the total state. The book was made available online by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 2004.[1]

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  • Spanish: Omnipotencia Gubernamental (translated by Pedro Elgoibar). Mexico City: Editorial Hermes, n.d. [1946?].
  • French: Le Gouvernement Omnipotent de L`État Totalitaire à la Guerre Total (translated by M. de Hulster). Paris: Librairie de Médicis, 1947.
German
  • Im Namen des Staates, oder Die Gefahren des Kollektivismus [In the Name of the State: or the Dangers of Collectivism]. Stuttgart, W. Germany: Bonn Aktuell, 1978. ISBN 3-87959-091-5
Russian
  • Всемогущее правительство: Тотальное государство и тотальная война. Moscow: Социум, 2007.[2]


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Ludwig von Mises Institute.[3]

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References[]

  1. Jeffrey Tucker. Books, Online and Off, March 22, 2004.
  2. "Omnipotent Government," Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. Web, Nov. 30, 2012.
  3. Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) Chronological Bibliography, Ludwig von Mises Institute. Web, Nov. 30, 2012.

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  • The Road to Serfdom

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