Limits of State Control in Economic Life
Graduation Date
Spring 1951
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Document Form
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Degree Granting Institution
Catholic University of America
Program Name
Humanities
Abstract
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.
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.