". . . von Mises was a member of Fatherland Front, a party that can be fairly described as proto-fascist (or to use Gottfried’s term, “something as anodyne as Austrian clerical fascism”). In his 1927 book Liberalism, von Mises wrote, It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.  . . "