Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would…

Ludwig von Mises
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Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error. ✨ Ludwig Von Mises (1962). The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism
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