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41 " As for Socialism, as soon as it has turned fundamentally from Anarchism, it must necessarily try to extend the field controlled by the compulsory order of the State, for its explicit aim is to abolish the ‘anarchy of production’. Far from abolishing State and compulsion it seeks to extend governmental action to a field which Liberalism would leave free. "
― Ludwig von Mises , Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
42 " Liberalism champions private property in the means of production because it expects a higher standard of living from such an economic organization, not because it wishes to help the owners. In the liberal economic system more would be produced than in the socialistic. The surplus would not benefit only the owners. "
43 " According to Anton Menger, Socialism usually assumes three economic basic rights — the right to the full produce of labour, the right to existence, and the right to work.1 "
44 " race and species are only general concepts, except in so far as they exist in the individual being’. "
45 " Lessing has said that Collectivism is nothing less than ‘the cloak of tyranny’. "
46 " According to the Marxist conception, one's social condition determines one's way of thought. His membership of a social class decides what views a writer will express. "
47 " Tacitly underlying Marxian theory is the nebulous idea that the natural factors of production are such that they need not be economized. "
48 " The peculiarity of land as a means of production is, partly, what gives the ownership of real property its special position in the Law. "