Bryan Caplan on Hayek, Richter, and Socialism
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Hayek's Nazism - The Roots of the Nazi Party
Bismarck deliberately chose Germany as his model because for two reasons. He was worried about this paradoxical result that we were fighting Germany but we were adopting many of its goals he feared. And the second is that he argues in the book that the roots of Nazism are German and that many of the intellectual ideas that paved the way for Nazism were becoming quite easily adopted by many Americans and English.
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