Wilhelm Röpke person
also: Kropke, Rob Key, Rocky, Roebke, Ropke, Rottke, Röpke, Wilhelm Roebke
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Wilhelm Röpke member_of
Mont Pelerin Society book_quoted
“First, an outcome of his economic thinking. Second, a product of the liberal and conservative intellectuals from the early 1920s and 30s. And third, as a wish to contribute combative propaganda. And he found all of them in the Mount Pelerin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 53:19
Wilhelm Röpke recruited
Albert Kramer book_quoted
“about modern dictatorships and used them as justification for his liberal and conservative alternatives. During the Second World War, Roebke linked up with German Catholic conservative Albert Kramer after reading his writings called The Red…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 57:15
Wilhelm Röpke member_of
Research Association for National Political Work book_quoted
“democracy organization. Two members proposed that Kropke join their board of directors. Again, all of it was, here's even a quote, it was their job to, quote, fight against the red defamers and the anti-anti-communist. So, Kropke's anti-com…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:03:06
Wilhelm Röpke targeted_for_regime_change
Soviet Union book_quoted
“represented the typical soft-in-the-head intellectual with his relativism values. Ropke equally denounced those fearful of the atom who failed to understand that the West could only dissuade the Soviet Union through the use of a nuclear ars…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:00:54
Wilhelm Röpke member_of
Fabian Society host_asserted
“He also thought that it represented Satanism. And this comes from somebody that's basing their thought process on the Fabian Society, which embraced eugenics and everything else. In general, the neoliberals projected a pessimistic diagnosis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 55:44
Mentions (25)
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Ludwig von Mises, who at one point wanted Wilhelm Röpke excluded from the society because he said that he was an outright interventionist, i.e. controlled markets. Mises was a minority voice at the first meeting, but his views were largely …
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At the first meeting in the United States in 1958, which Crane co-sponsored, he was concerned that Wilhelm Roebke and other German liberals might attack the business community in America and undo much of the good that had been accomplished …
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Roebke had a bee in his bonnet on the preservation of traditions and a curious horror of commercialism. So, you can see the internal conflict and the way in which this group was being steered. Mount Pelerin Society was meant to lead a new c…
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In June of 1949, Karl Brandt, B-R-A-N-D-T, wrote to Hayek to urge more momentum and speed, using the phrase, Rome is burning right now. So, in West Germany, Ludwig Earnhardt was acting on the ideas of the Mount Pelerin Society members, such…
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Ropke was talking about the empowerment of European liberals, both in a general sense and a very specific way. He was calling on American authorities in Europe to trust him and his colleagues for the restoration process. Since a higher degr…
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which would reveal its worst features and deprive the Americans of a possibility of teaching the Europeans sound economic policy, Rottke called for an energetic and intelligent counteroffensive of the advocates of the free market economy, a…
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Rob Key's primary focus was on the future of Europe, and unlike most of the members on the American side, he seemed less concerned about the threat of collectivism and central planning within the United States. One may argue that for their …
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H-U-N-O-L-D, was eager to gain influence beyond the practical matters of this new organization. He also said, we have to be careful with these Americans because they want to do it all themselves and are not inclined to follow, for instance,…
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And the welfare state and the proliferation of think tanks had a major impact on people like Reagan and Thatcher. Yet neoliberalism emerges out of this history as a global vision. The investigation of its anti-communist dimension is general…
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after 1933, was equally prominent in its early years. But there is a direct linkage between neoliberalism and anti-communism. The anti-communism of Wilhelm Roebke was initially fed by the premise of neoliberal doctrine. The liberal and cons…
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First, an outcome of his economic thinking. Second, a product of the liberal and conservative intellectuals from the early 1920s and 30s. And third, as a wish to contribute combative propaganda. And he found all of them in the Mount Pelerin…
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there was two ways of approaching neoliberalism and its relationship to communism. The first deals with its content in strictly economic terms. From 1925, the young Ropke, already a university professor, draws the conclusion about the impos…
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Hungarian economist, Michael Polan, in his USSR Economics, which was an article. All of these intellectuals joined the Mount Polaran society after the war. Röpke felt supported and justified in his point of view. Röpke also wanted to compre…
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as the principal geopolitical and ideological fact which has pushed humanity in a new and worrying error. With the Russian Revolution of 1917, a new system of society and government came into the world and spread under different colors, dif…
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He believed that in order to comprehend the intrinsic political essence of the totalitarian communist regime, he judged it to be animated by the principle of absolute politicalization. He compared Soviet communism to Islam with its Arabia a…
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Everybody out of what we would consider freedom, individualism, in order to protect us from that dreadful communism. Ropke's anti-communism followed in part from what it was used to justify their neoliberalism view.…
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The young Professor Roebke was one of the many liberals and conservative intellectuals that were concerned about the quote-unquote masses during the 1920s. In Switzerland, he wrote about fascism and communism, notably using immigrants in wh…
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about modern dictatorships and used them as justification for his liberal and conservative alternatives. During the Second World War, Roebke linked up with German Catholic conservative Albert Kramer after reading his writings called The Red…
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The contacts established in his new adopted country were therefore very strong influences on his views. In the 30s, Röpke's anti-communism was in its final analysis a reflection of the age preoccupied by the creation of a fear of communism.…
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barrier to communism. And it goes on to talk about that Röpke cannot be suspected of indulgence towards Nazism, which he always condemned, yet he did declare himself ever more preoccupied with Russia. By the end of 1943, Nazism amounted to …
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In December 1944, he worried about not having been able to convince an American diplomat that appeasement towards Stalin would be just as much in vain as it had been towards Hitler. In September 1945, he felt that the post-war realignments …
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It forged a vision of the world based on a very virulent form of anti-communism, a vision also seen as particularly radical by other liberals. Ruppke never ceased to castigate the so-called progressives who he felt was everywhere. He compla…
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contaminated by crypto-communist or even other communist ideas, unquote. The progressives also included prominent Christians who were unaware to the point of converting to communism in the name of the gospel. So everybody was an enemy. He a…
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represented the typical soft-in-the-head intellectual with his relativism values. Ropke equally denounced those fearful of the atom who failed to understand that the West could only dissuade the Soviet Union through the use of a nuclear ars…
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through his virulent anti-communism. He also said that if you didn't have nuclear arsenals, small nations such as Austria and Finland would somehow succumb to the communist allure. Röpke contributed to the spiritual national defense, which …