Mises on the Impossible Possition of Socialism

Socialism has only ONE way out of this position. Regardless of the fact that it holds power, it must still keep trying to appear as an oppressed and persecuted sect, impeded by hostile powers from pushing through the essential parts of its program, and so shifting onto others the responsibility for the non-appearance of the prophesied state of happiness. Since it can explain the failure of socialism only by the machinations of foreign capitalism, it necessarily arrives at a new concept of the offensive socialist international. Socialism can be realized only if the whole world becomes socialist; an isolated socialism of one single nation is said to be impossible.

--Ludwig von Mises. Nation, State, and Economy

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Mises on Marx as a "proletariat"

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Of course, the Marxians consider a doctrine vicious if its author's background is not proletarian. But who is proletarian? Doctor Marx, the manufacturer and "exploiter" Engels, and Lenin, the scion of the Russian gentry, were certainly not ...

of proletarian background. But Hitler and Mussolini were genuinely proletarians and spent their youth in poverty. The conflict of the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks or that between Stalin and Trotsky cannot be presented as class conflicts. They were conflicts between various sects of fanatics who called one another traitors.

--Ludwig von Mises. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics