The Social Order and the Family

Tags: Political Theory, Private Property, Media and Culture

11/11/2026 Ludwig von Mises

Mises examines the long association between socializing property and transforming relations between the sexes, noting that no German socialist book was read more widely than Bebel’s Woman and Socialism. Mises treats the economic position of women, marriage as a contract, and the claim that capitalism degraded love—ending on an unsentimental account of how married love actually changes over a life.

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