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Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological
Analysis [1922]  Edition used:   About Liberty Fund:    Foreign
Investment  No one can regard what his neighbour does as a
matter of mere indifference. Everyone is interested in raising
the productivity of labour by the widest division of labour
possible under given circumstances. I too am injured if some
people maintain a state of economic self-sufficiency: for, if
they were to relax their isolation, the division of labour could
be made even more comprehensive. If the means of production are
in the hands of relatively inefficient agents, the damage is
universal.  Under Capitalism the profit-seeking of individual
entrepreneurs harmonizes the interests of the individual with
those of the community. On the one hand,