Ludwig Von Mises, among the most influential economic thinkers of the 20th century. 

Mises thought that socialism needed a comprehensive refutation, covering not just the failures of economic planning, but socialism’s analysis of history, its theory of monopoly, the relevance of classes, and its ethics.

“The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.” – Ludwig Von Mises

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