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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
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Subject: Re: Socialism
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 12:26:21 EST
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> 
>      The most exhaustive presentation of his argument is his book *Socialism*,
> which can be bought in quality-paperback for about $6.  If you look for it in
> the library, you may have to look for it under 'Mises', 'von Mises', or
> 'Vonmises' (American librarians have trouble coping with surname-prefixes; and
> matters are complicated because Austria outlawed use of 'von', so that some of
> von Mises's works were written as 'Ludwig Mises' -- but you should see what
> they do with 'Eugen Ritter von Bohm Bawerk'!).
>      Do I read Socialist writings?  Sure; my library has various works of Marx,
> Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, as well as less well-known Socialists.
> Do I expect our resident Socialist bombasts to read von Mises?  Nah.
> 
>                                         Constantly disgusted,
>                                         Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
>                                         9120 Hawthorn Pt
>                                         Westerville, OH  43081-9605

Thanks for the info! I hope to be able to find the book, I have seen references
to von Mises but never seen his books in any bookstores.  I have read
Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, and other such Capitalist writings. 
So do not be surprised to find a resident Socialist bombast reading
von Mises.                         
                        "Ecstasy is the Greatest Revolution"
                           tim sevener  whuxl!orb
(p.s. why be constantly disgusted? seems a miserable way to live...)