leonwankum on Nostr: ‘Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. The way to eternal peace ...

‘Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. The way to eternal peace does not lead through strengthening state and central power, as socialism strives for. The greater the scope the state claims in the life of the individual and the more important politics becomes for him, the more areas of friction are thereby created in territories with mixed population. Limiting state power to a minimum … would considerably soften the antagonisms between different nations that live side by side in the same territory. The only true national autonomy is the freedom of the individual against the state and society. The “stratification” of life and of the economy leads with necessity to the struggle of nations.’—Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State and Economy; pp. 79.