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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.

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