“For [Karl Marx] all politics was only the continuation of war by other means; his political art was always political tactics.  The socialist parties . . . have kept this up . . . .  They have elaborated the technique of agitation, the cadging for votes and for souls, the stirring up of electoral excitement, the street demonstrations, and the terrorism.  To learn the technique of these things requires years of hard study . . . .  [T]he Marxians give more attention to questions of organization and of tactics than to the most important problems of politics . . . .  [N]othing interests them at all except from the point of view of party tactics . . . they have no interest to spare for anything else.”

— Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, pp. 417-418

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