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Presents an explanation of the international conflicts that caused both world wars. This title provides the main theme: government interference in the economy leads to conflicts and wars. It states that the last and best hope for peace is liberalism - the philosophy of liberty, free markets, limited government, and democracy.

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

Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition; Preface; Introduction; The Collapse of German Liberalism; German Liberalism; The Ancien Regime and Liberalism; The Weakness of German Liberalism; The Prussian Army; The Constitutional Conflict in Prussia; The Little German Program; The Lassalle Episode; The Triumph of Militarism; The Prussian Army in the New German Empire; German Militarism; The Liberals and Militarism; The Current Explanation of the Success of Militarism; Nationalism; Etatism; The New Mentality; The State; The Political and Social Doctrines of Liberalism; Socialism; Socialism in Russia and in Germany; Interventionism; Etatism and Protectionism; Economic Nationalism and Domestic Monopoly Prices; Autarky; German Protectionism; Etatism and Nationalism; The Principle of Nationality; The Linguistic Group; Liberalism and the Principle of Nationality; Aggressive Nationalism; Colonial Imperialism; Foreign Investment and Foreign Loans; Total War; Socialism and War; Refutation of Some Fallacious Explanations; The Shortcomings of Current Explanations; The Alleged Irrationality of Nationalism; The Aristocratic Doctrine; Misapprehended Darwinism; The Role of Chauvinism; The Role of Myths; German Nazism; The Peculiar Characteristics of German Nationalism; The Awakening; The Ascendancy of Pan-Germanism; German Nationalism Within an Etatist World; A Critique of German Nationalism; Nazism and German Philosophy; Polylogism; Pan-Germanism and Nazism; The Social Democrats in Imperial Germany; The Legend; Marxism and the Labor Movement; The German Workers and the German State; The Social Democrats within the German Caste System; he Social Democrats and War; Anti-Semitism and Racism; The Role of Racism; The Struggle against the Jewish Mind; Interventionism and Legal Discrimination against Jews; The Stab in the Back; Anti-Semitism as a Factor in International Politics; The Weimar Republic and Its Collapse; The Weimar Constitution; The Abortive Socialisation; The Armed Parties; The Treaty of Versailles; The Economic Depression; Nazism and German Labour; The Foreign Critics of Nazism; Nazism as a World Problem; The Scope and Limitations of History; The Fallacy of the Concept of National Character; Germany's Rubicon; The Alternative; The Future of Western Civilisation; The Delusions of World Planning; The Term Planning; The Dictatorship Complex; A World Government; Planned Production; Foreign Trade Agreements; Monetary Planning; Planning International Capital Transactions; Peace Schemes; Armament Control; A Critique of Some Other Schemes Proposed; The Union of the Western Democracies; Peace in Eastern Europe; The Problems of Asia; The Role of the League of Nations; Conclusion; Index.