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In his great classic, Socialism<\/em><\/a>, Ludwig von Mises observed that socialists always employed the dual strategy of 1) nationalizing as much industry and property as possible; and 2) \u201cdestructionism,\u201d defined as \u201cdestroying the social order which is based on private ownership.\u201d\u00a0 Destructionism can be achieved through the welfare state, progressive taxation, onerous taxation, and regulation and regimentation of private industry.\u00a0 It is a form of economic sabotage.<\/p>\n There is also a third necessity in order for socialists to achieve their goal of a government \u201cplanned\u201d society:\u00a0 the centralization of power and the elimination of all possible exits. As Mises wrote in another of his classics, Omnipotent Government<\/a>,<\/em> \u201c[T]he adversaries of the trend toward more government control describe their opposition as a fight against . . . centralization.\u00a0 It is conceived as a contest of states\u2019 rights versus the central power.\u201d\u00a0 This, of course, is what the \u201cBrexit\u201d vote in Great Britain was all about.<\/p>\n The proponents of totalitarian government control, whether they call themselves socialists or something else, have always attacked decentralization, states\u2019 rights, federalism, and all other means of the devolution of power in society.\u00a0 Adolf Hitler bemoaned \u201cthe struggle between federalism and states rights\u201d in Mein Kampf<\/em> and promised that the \u201cNational Socialists [i.e. , Nazis] would totally eliminate states\u2019 rights altogether\u201d (Mein Kampf<\/em>, 1998 Houghton Mifflin edition, p. 565).<\/p>\n American history has been one long march toward more and more centralized governmental power and less and less freedom as a consequence.\u00a0 It began with Alexander Hamilton\u2019s proposal at the constitutional convention for a \u201cpermanent president\u201d who would appoint all state governors who would have veto power over all state legislation.\u00a0 His plan failed after being tarred by the Jeffersonians as essentially the British empire without Great Britain.<\/p>\n The \u201cCivil War\u201d created a great centralization of political power and effectively turned all states, North, and South, into mere appendages of Washington, D.C.\u00a0 This trend was perpetually strengthened by all subsequent wars as war is always and everywhere the health of the state.<\/p>\n Franklin D. Roosevelt even proposed effectively abolishing the states altogether as political entities as a means of eliminating all opposition to his grandiose, socialistic plans for America.\u00a0 As described by Frank Chodorov in The Income Tax: Root of All Evil<\/em><\/a> (page 82).<\/p>\n