Frank
Have they? What system can be considered viable that needs to steal
the years of accrued surplus value of its workers in an attempt to
ensure it's survival.
MJ
Why socialism -- in all of its variants -- of course.
Regard$,
--MJ
The beginning and end of the socialist policy,
which has dominated the world for decades, is
destruction.... Although destructionism is more
easily recognized in the actions of the Bolshevists
than in other parties, it is essentially just as
strong in all other socialist movements. State
interference in economic life, which calls itself
'economic policy,' has done nothing but destroy
economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have
by their general obstructive tendency fostered
the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.... That
production is still being carried on, even
semi-rationally, is to be ascribed only to the
fact that destructionist laws and measures have
not yet been able to operate completely and
effectively. Were they more effective, hunger
and mass extinction would be the lot of all
civilized nations today.
Ludwig von Mises
_Socialism_, originally published in 1922.
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