Liberty and Property.pdf - The Ludwig von Mises Institute

Liberty and Property 27exist. Thus the liquidation of all dissenters isthe condition that will bring us what the communistscall freedom. From this point of viewwe may also understand what another distinguishedEnglishman, Mr. J.G. Crowther,had in mind when he praised inquisition as“beneficial to science when it protects a risingclass.” The meaning of all this is clear.When all people meekly bow to a dictator,there will no longer be any dissenters left forliquidation. Caligula, Torquemada, Robespierrewould have agreed with this solution.The socialists have engineered a semanticrevolution in converting the meaning ofterms into their opposite. In the vocabularyof their “Newspeak,” as George Orwell calledit, there is a term “the one-party principle.”Now etymologically party is derived from thenoun part. The brotherless part is no longerJoan Robinson, Private Enterprise and Public Control (publishedfor the Association for Education in Citzenship by theEnglish Universities Press, Ltd., s.d.), pp. 13–14.J.G. Crowther, Social Relations of Science (London, 1941),p. 333.