68 | F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom: Competition, Individualism, and the Politics of Reaction
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Possibility of Collectivism
There's another kind of hard limit for him on the possibilities of collectivism which is that there's a collective action problem. We're naturally constituratively incapable of actually acting in common in any way, he says. I'm not convinced though to your point that we therefore throw up our hands and say let's never try to figure out what we mean by common good or something like this just because there's spontaneous disagreement but there is.
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