“There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.”

This essay was first published as a monograph in 1938. At the time, Garet Garrett was well established as a financial writer for the Saturday Evening Post. This essay reflects his view—also explored in his essay “Rise of Empire”—that the United States by the late 1930s had already completed its transformation into an administrative state with imperial ambitions. Those who were looking to the future for a coming anti-freedom revolution, Garrett noted, “are gazing in the wrong direction.”

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was