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		<title>The usual terminology of political language is stupid.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Interventionism, An Economic Analysis (1940), Ludwig von Mises wrote:
The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is &#8216;left&#8216; and what is &#8216;right&#8216;? Why should Hitler be &#8216;right&#8217; and Stalin, his temporary friend, be &#8216;left&#8217;? Who is &#8216;reactionary&#8216; and who is &#8216;progressive&#8216;? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In <em>Interventionism, An Economic Analysis</em> (1940), Ludwig von Mises wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is &#8216;<a title="Left-wing politics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics">left</a>&#8216; and what is &#8216;<a title="Right-wing politics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics">right</a>&#8216;? Why should <a title="Adolf Hitler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler">Hitler</a> be &#8216;right&#8217; and <a title="Joseph Stalin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin">Stalin</a>, his temporary friend, be &#8216;left&#8217;? Who is &#8216;<a title="Reactionary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary">reactionary</a>&#8216; and who is &#8216;<a title="Progressivism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism">progressive</a>&#8216;? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended. Nothing should find acceptance just because it is new, radical, and fashionable. &#8216;<a title="Orthodoxy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodoxy">Orthodoxy</a>&#8216; is not an evil if the doctrine on which the &#8216;<a title="Orthodox" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox">orthodox</a>&#8216; stand is sound. Who is anti-labor, those who want to lower labor to the <a title="Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union">Russian</a> level, or those who want for labor the <a title="Capitalism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism">capitalistic</a> standard of the <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a>? Who is &#8216;<a title="Nationalism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism">nationalist</a>,&#8217; those who want to bring their nation under the heel of the Nazis, or those who want to preserve its independence?</p></blockquote>
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