NSmolenskiFan on Nostr: Hello @IngarSolty, just caught your piece in @jacobin smearing Friedrich Hayek as an ...

Hello @IngarSolty, just caught your piece in @jacobin smearing Friedrich Hayek as an "enemy of freedom," a "neoliberal," a figure of the "radical right," and equating his bottom-up, scientific approach to economy with the policies of specific politicians (i.e. Thatcher and Reagan).

Have you read any Hayek--at all? If not, perhaps start with the essay below, "Why I Am Not a Conservative," which is published in The Constitution of Liberty.

Hayek is extremely clear that he opposes the use of the power of the state to cudgel people into any kind of conformity, including cultural conformity. He considers conservatism as an ideology to be at war with science, innovation, and technological progress.

The fact that some of Hayek's readers have misunderstood him and taken his message to justify whatever misapplication of state power they feel inclined to (including weighing in on the part of the owners of capital to break the wills of workers asserting their *right* to bargain for better wages) does not in any way make this "Hayek's message."

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/hayek-why-i-am-not-conservative.pdf