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The Importance of Acknowledging Our Serfdom

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MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2025
The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another.
– Ludwig von Mises, Human Action [1949]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
January 13, 2025
The Importance of Acknowledging Our Serfdom
My favorite freedom quotation is by Johann Goethe: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” That statement perfectly captures the plight of the American people. Owing mostly to the indoctrination they receive in the government schools to which their parents were forced to send them, most Americans honestly believe that they live in a free society. Their …
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