Ludwig von Mises Quotes about Socialism

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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

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Steps, Socialism, Welfare

What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

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Envy, Expectations, Socialism

Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

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Public Opinion, Favors, Socialism

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

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Realization, Lasts, Socialism

Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

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Father, Class, Socialism

Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

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Firsts, Socialism, Mass

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

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Government, Political, Socialism

Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

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Steps, Transformation, Socialism

Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

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Socialism, Economy, Rational

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.96, VM eBooks

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

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Goal, Common, Socialism

Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

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War, Liberty, Socialism

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

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Management, Socialism, Prove

Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

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Dark, Determined, Socialism

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc