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Yet
no
socialist
had
ever
written
a
scientific
defense
of
socialism,
nor
a
blueprint
for
exactly
how
the
economy
would
function
when
the
means
of
production
were
collectively
owned.
According
to
Karl
Marx's
doctrine,
anyone
question-
ing
the
socialist
scheme
lacked
class
consciousness.
Bourgeois
values
prevented
an
understanding
of
the
logic
of
history.
Because
"people
were
not
allowed
to
talk
or
to
think
about
the
nature
of
the
socialist
community,"
Mises
notes,
socialism
became
"the
dominant
political
move-
ment
of
the
late
nineteenth
and
early
twentieth
centu-
ries."
But
Mises
refused
to
play
by
the
socialist
rules,
and
he
challenged
left-Wing
intellectuals
with
questions
they
were
unable
to
answer.
If
there
is
no
private
ownership
of
the
factors
of
production,
and
thus
no
market
prices
for
them,
how
can
we
calculate
profit
and
loss?
Withou
t
the
ability
to
make
profit
and
loss
calculations,
how
can
we
judge
the
value
of
resources.
determine
the
correctness
of
various
meth-
ods
of
production,
or
tell
whether
time
and
resources
are
being
wasted
or
put
to
good
use?
In
a
market
economy,
prices
tell
us
the
needs
of
society
and
the
best
ways
to
meet
those
needs.
Without
prices,
economic
decision
must
be
arbitrary.
Mises
criticized
socialism
on
other
grounds-that
it
politicizes ... LIBERTY
communal
ownership-over
fishing
of
communally
owned
fishing
grounds,
and
so
on.
But
their
whole
argument
is
set
in
a
chapter
entitled
"Market
Failure,
Environment,
Energy."
Oddly,
in
light
of
this
chapter
title,
their
diagnosis
of
the
problem
of
externalities
is
the
same
as
that
of
Harold
Demsetz
in
his
famous
article
"Toward A
Theory
of
Property
Rights,"
(American
Economic
Review,
May
1967).
Demsetz
really
did
establish
the
key
point
that
free-riding
undermines
communalism.
The
Labrador
In-
dians
overhunted
beavers
on
communal
hunting
grounds
because
the
benefits
of
such
hunting
were
enjoyed
by
individual
hunters
(I.e.,
were
privatized),
while
the
costs
were
borne
by
other
members
of
the
tribe
(i.e., ...
.
112
3.
UNMASKING
THE
BUREAUCRATS
Why
Bureaucracy
Must
Fail
Llewellyn
H.
Rockwell
119
36
THE
ECONOMICS
OF LIBERTY
who
toils
finds
that
the
fruits
of
his
labor
are
tossed
into
a
common
pool,
where
they
may
be
consumed
by
his
less
industrious
brethren.
Slackers
profit
from
the
conscien-
tious.
This
is
a
classic
illustration
of
the
free-rider
prob-
lem-a
problem
that
arises
when
the
institutional
setting
does
not
permit
property
rights
to
be
well-defined.
The
free-rider
problem
arises
because
it
is
a
charac-
teristic
of
human
nature
that
if
we
are
offered...