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 Preservation of the Spirit
Hayek wrote the Constitution of Liberty in 48. It was definitely written to like dirty ones. He basically goes at social democracies and says you know oh this might look like it's doing something good but then he kind of raises two problemslike one is that there's a slow creep from you know things like universal health care to totalitarianism right. For him even the most seemingly positive social democratic measure contains the seeds of like what in his view is like barbarismright because itYeah it's going to reduce people down to slaves he says I don't know how many real health Hayekians are going to listen Owen.
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