The Russian Idea, Lenin and the Origins of the Totalitarian State

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

Ludwig von Mises,

Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus (1922)

Introduction

Via Sarah Maid of Albion