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Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
Ludwig von Mises
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Ludwig von Mises
Age: 92 †
Born: 1881
Born: September 29
Died: 1973
Died: October 10
Economist
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Lemberg
Austria
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Mises
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.
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In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.
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