Ep. 1525 Mises vs. the Civilization Destroyers

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ludwig von Mises devoted a section of his book Socialism to what he called "destructionism." Destructionism, like socialism itself, builds nothing. It lives off the accumulated wealth created by a society based on private property. And it is immensely popular, even today.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show Episode 1525.
0:03.2	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.8	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.3	The Tom Woods Show.
0:14.4	Hey, everybody. Tom Woods here. Today, I'm going to do two things.
0:17.5	I'm going to share with you the short talk I gave at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit
0:23.2	in Los Angeles last weekend on Mises and Destructionism.
0:28.0	If you read Socialism by Mises, which I'm ashamed to say I had not done until quite recently,
0:34.7	he has a section on something he calls Destructionism.
0:38.4	So you'll find out what that is in a minute, but I'm sure you can tell it's not a good thing.
0:43.2	So I talk about how that applies to our current situation, and I hope you enjoy that.
0:48.0	But then after that's over, it's probably about 20 minutes and I would feel bad,
0:52.8	giving you just a 20 minute episode.
0:54.9	So I have a few more things to tell you after that is all over.
0:57.7	So do not switch to some other program hosted by some other libertarian.
1:03.3	No, no, no, you just hang on for a minute.
1:05.4	I got a little bit more to tell you after this recording, which I hope you enjoy.
1:09.6	Here we go.
1:10.6	Our next guest, most of you already know Tom Woods.
1:12.8	What can you say about Tom?
1:14.8	He's a podcaster and author, an intellectual of great renown,
1:19.7	also a host of crews in the fall of every year, holds degrees from Colombia and Harvard,
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