Ludwig von Mises on Joseph Stalin
← Back to Joseph Stalin ProfilePublished in 1940, this statement reveals Mises's early prescience regarding the ideological similarities and eventual alliance between Nazism and Bolshevism, noted as early as 1925.
“Both anti-fascism and anti-communism have utterly lost their meaning since Hitler and Stalin have ceased to conceal their alliance from the world. [...] I predicted the cooperation between the Nazis and Bolsheviks as early as 1925 in my article "Anti-Marxism."”
In his analysis of interventionism, Mises argues that German capitalists and entrepreneurs favored Nazism over Communism to avoid potential liquidation by Stalin.
“The fact that the capitalists and entrepreneurs [in Germany], faced with the alternative of Communism or Nazism, chose the latter, does not require any further explanation. They preferred to live as shop managers under Hitler than to be "liquidated" as "bourgeois" by Stalin.”