{"id": "<a href="https://primal.net/e/note1nl7x8ccgjar2hu5cx8vvprf5x36gvqctqshtke707767khrtr5gqufhqsl">9ffc63e3089746abf29831d8c08d34347486030b042ebb67cff7b5eb5c6b1d10</a>", "pubkey": "5d5484c84967aac3986cd512af8dcdd52433d0901adbbb59236011884283aa1e", "created_at": 1752886404, "kind": 1, "tags": [["r", "https://mises.org/mises-wire/axiom-action-and-inescapability-liberty"]], "content": "The collectivist seeks to replace the acting man with the abstraction of a collective will. But such a will does not exist; it cannot choose; it cannot value. It is always a masku2014worn by the tyrant, the planner, the bureaucratu2014who supplants the individual and extinguishes the only genuine source of progress: the spontaneous actions of free men.nnAll collectivist doctrinesu2014whether socialist, fascist, nationalist, or theocraticu2014demand the subjugation of the individual to a fictitious whole. They are not only morally repugnant; they are irrational. For they seek to annihilate the very mechanism of life: human action itself. So when we say that anything other than libertyu2014anarchy in a proper senseu2014is anti-human, we are not making an ideological claim, nor engaging in partisan rhetoric. We are stating a logical truthu2014one rooted in the nature of man as an acting being.nnLiberty is not a u201cvalueu201d in the relativist sense. It is a necessary condition for human action. Only a free individual can choose, prefer, and act. Without liberty, there is no actoru2014only obedience and decay.nnA system that denies libertyu2014by decree, coercion, and collectivist abstractionu2014seeks to extinguish the only agency through which human life is sustained: the individual choosing mind. To abolish liberty is to abolish action. To abolish action is to abolish life.nnhttps://mises.org/mises-wire/axiom-action-and-inescapability-liberty", "sig": "c893da53cd6802bb6baaca06e801fc2a57a2806bb29539e637c659ef6944bf8f979cb56d91f337eeb4eaff1079e28a96488a35581e6c9a1c236333ee7ff65767"}