Ludwig von Mises: "Under the division of labor, the structure of society rests on the shoulders of all men and women." - Bureaucracy
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| Ludwig von Mises | Not the Russian armies, but the communist ideologies threaten the West. | Planned Chaos | p. 50 | Russia |
| Ludwig von Mises | The Russian pattern of socialism is purely bureaucratic. All economic enterprises are departments of the government, like the administration of the army or the postal system. Every plant, shop, or farm stands in the same relation to the superior central organization as does a post office to the office of the postmaster general. | Omnipotent Government | p. 56 | Russia |
| Ludwig von Mises | In Russia socialism certainly is not a movement of the immense majority. That it claims to be a movement in the interest of the immense majority is nothing special; all movements have claimed that. It is certain that the rule of the Bolsheviks in Russia rests just as much on possession of the government apparatus as the rule of the Romanovs once did. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 204 | Russia |
| Ludwig von Mises | Whether or not the Russian people are to discard the Soviet system is for them to settle among themselves. The land of the knout and the prison-camp no longer poses a threat to the world today. With all their will to war and destruction, the Russians are no longer capable seriously of imperiling the peace of Europe. One may therefore safely let them alone. | Liberalism | p. 154 | Russia |
| Ludwig von Mises | The real significance of the Lenin revolution is to be seen in the fact that it was the bursting forth of the principle of unrestricted violence and oppression. It was the negation of all the political ideals that had for three thousand years guided the evolution of Western civilization. | Planned Chaos | p. 63 | Russian Revolution |