Monday, October 1, 2018

Mises on National (Anti-Marxian) Socialism

Marxian socialism is beckoning: “Class war, not national war!” It is proclaiming: “Never again [imperialistic] war.” But it is adding in thought: “Civil war forever, revolution.”

National socialism is beckoning: “National unity! Peace among classes!” And it is adding in thought: “War on the foreign enemy!”

These solutions distill the ideas which are dividing the German nation into two hostile camps.

--Ludwig von Mises, Critique of Interventionism: Inquiries into Present Day Economic Policy and Ideology, trans. Hans F. Sennholz (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011), 81-82.


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