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<pre>von Mises' critique of Marxian and Fascist statism. an interesting discussion of the rise of statism and how it lead to war. A thorough analysis; even fascist and marxian polylogic is examined:
Marx and the Marxians, foremost among them
the "proletarian philosopher" Dietzgen, taught that thought is
determined by the thinker's class position. What thinking produces
is not truth but "ideologies." This word means, in the context of
Marxian philosophy, a disguise of the selfish interest of the social
class to which the thinking individual is attached. It is therefore
useless to discuss anything with people of another social class.
Ideologies do not need to be refuted by discursive reasoning; they
must be unmasked by denouncing the class position, the social
background, of their authors. Thus Marxians do not discuss the
merits of physical theories; they merely uncover the "bourgeois"
origin of the physicists....
The German nationalists had to face precisely the same problem
as the Marxians. They also could neither demonstrate the correctness
of their own statements nor disprove the theories of economics
and praxeology. Thus they took shelter under the roof of polylogism,
prepared for them by the Marxians. Of course, they concocted
their own brand of polylogism. The logical structure of
mind, they say, is different with different nations and races. Every
race or nation has its own logic and therefore its own economics,
mathematics, physics, and so on. But, no less inconsistently than
Professor Mannheim, Professor Tirala, his counterpart as champion
of Aryan epistemology, declares that the only true, correct,
and perennial logic and science are those of the Aryans.^ In the
eyes of the Marxians Ricardo, Freud, Bergson, and Einstein are
wrong because they are bourgeois; in the eyes of the Nazis they are
wrong because they are Jews. One of the foremost goals of the Nazis
is to free the Aryan soul from the pollution of the Western philosophies
of Descartes, Hume, and John Stuart Mill. They are in search
of an arteigen German science, that is, of a science adequate to
the racial character of the Germans.
Yale Univ. Press 1944, 300 pp. </pre>
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