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Ludwig von Mises on Capitalism

1881–1973 Austria

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The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method (1962)

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method (1978)

Pareto, Georges Sorel, Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini were right in denouncing democracy as a capitalist method. Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

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