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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 Thickness of Coercion in Socialism

I think that there's a reason these ideas all match up so sweetly with each other. He says competition oftentimes is quote the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority. I just feel like you got to pick a side man and he has a thin notion of coercion but then as soon as you start talking about health care or any sort of socialism it becomes really thick, Lillian said.

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