Limits of State Control in Economic Life

<p>World War I was fought. It was said, to make the world safe for democracy. Yet before that conflict was over, the revolution had taken place in Russia which established in that country the roots of the present totalitarian government in which no man can call his soul his own* After the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Germany set her­self to the task of recovery and, before many years had passed, there was set up in Germany a totalitarian state which departed about as far from democracy as it was possible to go. Very soon Fascist Italy was marching along in the same direction. Once more the world was thrown into a welter of confusion and bloodshed by . World War II an attempt by the democracies to overthrow the Axis powers. But war makes strange partners, and Russia, the most terrible of the totalitarian., Joined with the democracies to overcome the Axis. Though the democracies, with Russia, scoured the military victory. It Is evident that throughout the globe, there Is less and less of democ­racy and more and more of the welfare state or state socialism, the natural culmination of which Is totalitarianism.</p> <p>It will be the purpose of this paper to show something of the reason for this situation In the world today; why the democracies tend more and more to become socialistic states; and what we can and must do about It, particularly hero in cur own country, if we would pre­serve for ourselves and our posterity the glorious heritage of free­dom secured for us at such great cost by the fathers of our country.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Humanities

Year

1951

Author dc:creator

• Losa, Mary

• Humanities
• Arts and Humanities

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/58

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1057