Omnipotent Government

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Author	Ludwig von Mises
Language	English
Subject	Nazism, nationalism, fascism, socialism, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Yale University Press, Libertarian Press
Publication date	1944
Publication place	United States
Pages	ix, 291 pp.
OCLC	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 American libertarian and right-libertarian social thought and critique of totalitarianism and state 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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