Well Mises did say that sometimes you need a little fascism to keep the lower orders in their place.
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True but Mises did write that before he had to flee Europe due to being Jewish which one would assume would preclude any Nazis being willing to hire him.Well Mises did say that sometimes you need a little fascism to keep the lower orders in their place.
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True but Mises did write that before he had to flee Europe due to being Jewish which one would assume would preclude any Nazis being willing to hire him.
So they steal his work and put a properly Aryan name on it.
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True but Mises did write that before he had to flee Europe due to being Jewish which one would assume would preclude any Nazis being willing to hire him.
He also was specifically referencing Italian Fascism, given the quote is from 1927.Well Mises did say that sometimes you need a little fascism to keep the lower orders in their place.
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Yes, he stopped being quite as fond of fascism once they were done with the socialists and moved on to the Jews. A certain poem comes to mind. But anyway, the point I was making is that I don't find it implausible that Mises, given his views that capitalism sometimes needs dictatorship to defend it, would find a Notzi Germany that relaxes the Nuremberg Laws and embraces Austrian economics to his tastes.He also was specifically referencing Italian Facism, given the quote is from 1927.
Of course nobody should find it surprising that the nearest thing to utopia from Sean Gabb's perspective is Notzi Germany.
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True. Mises was a POS either way.Yes, he stopped being quite as fond of fascism once they were done with the socialists and moved on to the Jews. A certain poem comes to mind. But anyway, the point I was making is that I don't find it implausible that Mises, given his views that capitalism sometimes needs dictatorship to defend it, would find a Notzi Germany that relaxes the Nuremberg Laws and embraces Austrian economics to his tastes.
Of course nobody should find it surprising that the nearest thing to utopia from Sean Gabb's perspective is Notzi Germany.
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Yeah to be clear my point wasn’t that this was bad alternate history because Mises joins up with Nazis who cool it a bit with the anti semitism, I consider it bad alternate history that the Nazis cool it a bit with the anti semitism.Yes, he stopped being quite as fond of fascism once they were done with the socialists and moved on to the Jews. A certain poem comes to mind. But anyway, the point I was making is that I don't find it implausible that Mises, given his views that capitalism sometimes needs dictatorship to defend it, would find a Notzi Germany that relaxes the Nuremberg Laws and embraces Austrian economics to his tastes.
Of course nobody should find it surprising that the nearest thing to utopia from Sean Gabb's perspective is Notzi Germany.
Don't worry, I did get your meaning, that was just a specific detail of the TL that caught my attention.Yeah to be clear my point wasn’t that this was bad alternate history because Mises joins up with Nazis who cool it a bit with the anti semitism, I consider it bad alternate history that the Nazis cool it a bit with the anti semitism.