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MARXISM UNMASKED
and even if the incentives for work and industry wnr not reduced or
eliminated throu^ the abobtion of privace p roperty; Mises was able to
demonstrate that the vrrv' insotutional structure of a socialist regime made
it impossible for it to produce a material **heaven on earth" for mankind
supenor to the producti\r and innovative efficiencv* of a tuncQoning
free-market economv.'* It is vh'hat enabled Mises to dedare m the earK-
193^>s, when the appeal of socialist planning around the world was teaching
Its zenith, that. "From the standpomt of both politics and history, this proof
IS certainly the most important discovrry made by econoouc theory. ... it
alone will enable ^ture hmoriam to undentand how.- it came about that
the victory of the socialist UMWcmcm did not lead to the creation ot' the
socialist order of society.""
Mists 's San Frmauo Letnurs
Mises bebevrd that any compfrheitmr critique of socialism had to
deal with more than merrK its unworkabtbty as an economic system.
ho%%r\TT central this w» to the case auMiM tociainm. It was also necenary
to challenge and rrtute the phikwoptucaj and pofaocal underpinnings of
(he uxulist uui Marxian concepcsoas of man and society Hts 1922 book
on Sooiilitm anempted to do this m grrai detail And he returned to thn
(heme J f'es% \rars alter he delrvrred these lectures m San Francisco in hn
\%t>rk on /Vary smJ Hutcrf '•
What Mtses olfirrrd thcNc attending these lectutrs m late June
and cu)\ juK* ul' 1952 wa» a clear undencandmg and inughi into the
fundamental errtHs and mnconceptiom to be found m Mjnt\ tlwona of
dulevtual matrrialtvn and cLns wartarr. as wrO as a hncortal MiilyHi of
the rrol benetit% tnmi the Induurtal Ro\shit»on that cotncided with the
rtncrgcfu r ol nMidern capttalni tociefv He ako explains the role of savings.
in\r%tn)efu. and the pnitic and km syitem as the engines for economic and
iulturil pnigrr\«. and whuh hasr helped ehmtnale the poverty that hat
pU^iicd nunkind thrxHigh most ok hisiorv
in an r\pc« ulK insightful lecture. Mtses dncuMes the nature and
\%\)rking% ot lapttai markets and the importance of market-based ntcrm
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