Required Reading

I was given a heads-up about the existence of the Mises Institute, an economic think-tank/foundation in Auburn, Alabama. Fantastic Publications and a world of alternative economic thought, i.e the Austrian school, as developed by Ludwig von Mises. His book, "The Road To Serfdom" is incredible, written in the early 1940's after he arrived in Great Britain fleeing Nazism, where he was horrified to find the fashionable elites extolling the virtues of Hitler and Stalin. This happened. It is completely applicable to today. I am about halfway through it. In it he expounds on the confusion surrounding the conceptualization of socialism vs. totalitarianism, and the conclusion is, they are one and the same. FREEDOM FOR INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT AND ACTION IS DESTROYED AND THE COLLECTIVE, OR THE GOVERNMENT, MUST RULE AND CONTROL ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE. A must-read. The parallels for today are mind numbing.