# Introduction (Vol. 3 No. 1) **URL:** **Published:** March 1, 1986 --- “We will present a liberal theory of class based on Austrian economic theory in this issue and in the process show its priority and superiority to Marxist theories of class.” In the last issue of the _Humane Studies Review_ we introduced Ludwig von Mises’s crucial concept of interventionism. This led to a discussion of some important forms that the interventionist state has taken: organized capitalism, the command economy, war socialism, fascism, state socialism, and the welfare state. In this issue we return to the general topic of interventionism to expand on Mises’s insight that class conflict is the result of government interventions in the economy and the granting of political privileges. Most people associate “class analysis” with Marxism yet it is an irony of history that an earlier and more consistent theory of class and class conflict was developed by classical liberals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will present a liberal theory of class based on Austrian economic theory in this issue and in the process show its priority and superiority to Marxist theories of class.