Liberty and Property.pdf - The Ludwig von Mises Institute

C o n t e n t sPart I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11“At the end of the eighteenth century thereprevailed two notions of liberty, each of themvery different from what we have in mindtoday referring to liberty and freedom.”Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15“The pre-capitalistic system of product wasrestrictive. Its historical basis was militaryconquest.”Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23“What vitiates entirely the socialists’economic critique of capitalism is theirfailure to grasp the sovereignty of theconsumers in the market economy.”Part IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29“It was different in the esoteric discussionsamong the inner circles of the greatconspiracy. There the initiated did notdissemble their intentions concerningliberty.”