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"The greater productivity of work under the division of labour is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals."

— von Mises, Ludwig event 1922

From Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Context: From Chapter 2, "Society," section "The Division of Labour as the Principle of Social Development," in Socialism (1922). A frequently paraphrased line online drops the actual subject ("the division of labour") in favor of "the market economy" — close in spirit, since Mises treats market exchange as the division of labour's institutional expression, but not the sentence he wrote.

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