G.A.R. von Rochow
January 15, 1838
“On January 15th, 1838, the Prussian Minister of the Interior, G. A. R. von Rochow, declared in reply to a petition of citizens of a Prussian city, It’s not seemly for a subject to apply the yardstick of his wretched intellect to the acts of the Chief of the State and to arrogate to himself, in haughty insolence, a public judgment about their fairness. This was in the days in which German liberalism challenged absolutism, and public opinion vehemently resented this piece of overbearing bureaucratic pretension.
Half a century later German liberalism was stone dead. The Kaiser’s Sozialpoltik, the statist system of government interference with business and of aggressive nationalism, had supplanted it. Nobody minded when the Rector of the Imperial University of Strassburg quietly characterized the German system of government thus: Our officials, … will never tolerate anybodyi’s wresting the power from their hands, certainly not parliamentary majorities whom we know ho to deal with in a masterly way. No kind of rule is endured so easily or accepted so gratefully as that of high-minded and highly eduated civil servants. The German State is a State of the supremacy of officialdom – let us hope that it will remain so.”
[Taken from the preface to the 1st Edition of Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy. Sound like Trudeau, Jen Psaki, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC??? Anybody know what happens next? Sound similar to the China-Russia-NOK-Iran playbook?]
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1838 G.A.R. von Rochow, Prussian Minister of the Interior
G.A.R. von Rochow
January 15, 1838
“On January 15th, 1838, the Prussian Minister of the Interior, G. A. R. von Rochow, declared in reply to a petition of citizens of a Prussian city, It’s not seemly for a subject to apply the yardstick of his wretched intellect to the acts of the Chief of the State and to arrogate to himself, in haughty insolence, a public judgment about their fairness. This was in the days in which German liberalism challenged absolutism, and public opinion vehemently resented this piece of overbearing bureaucratic pretension.
Half a century later German liberalism was stone dead. The Kaiser’s Sozialpoltik, the statist system of government interference with business and of aggressive nationalism, had supplanted it. Nobody minded when the Rector of the Imperial University of Strassburg quietly characterized the German system of government thus: Our officials, … will never tolerate anybodyi’s wresting the power from their hands, certainly not parliamentary majorities whom we know ho to deal with in a masterly way. No kind of rule is endured so easily or accepted so gratefully as that of high-minded and highly eduated civil servants. The German State is a State of the supremacy of officialdom – let us hope that it will remain so.”
[Taken from the preface to the 1st Edition of Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy. Sound like Trudeau, Jen Psaki, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC??? Anybody know what happens next? Sound similar to the China-Russia-NOK-Iran playbook?]
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