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A review by kevin_carson
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell
2.0
The central insights of the book are
1) that a central planning regime would encompass more and more of life, and require control over any number of things that might otherwise disrupt its goals; and
2) that this extends to guaranteeing that future elections won't undo or disrupt the accomplishments of the central planning regime.
This ignores the fact that
1) there are a variety of forms of socialism that don't require central planning (e.g., instead achieving egalitarian goals through initial definition of property rules and pre-distribution, and then leaving communal and cooperative institutions to deal with each other horizontally through either non-capitalist market or federative planning arrangements); and
2) *any* system grants fundamental constitutional status to some institutions, that are beyond ordinary electoral politics (e.g. a whole host of provisions in the US Constitution that prevent the impairment of existing property rules or contracts, and empower the federal government to invade any state that attempts to subvert them).
1) that a central planning regime would encompass more and more of life, and require control over any number of things that might otherwise disrupt its goals; and
2) that this extends to guaranteeing that future elections won't undo or disrupt the accomplishments of the central planning regime.
This ignores the fact that
1) there are a variety of forms of socialism that don't require central planning (e.g., instead achieving egalitarian goals through initial definition of property rules and pre-distribution, and then leaving communal and cooperative institutions to deal with each other horizontally through either non-capitalist market or federative planning arrangements); and
2) *any* system grants fundamental constitutional status to some institutions, that are beyond ordinary electoral politics (e.g. a whole host of provisions in the US Constitution that prevent the impairment of existing property rules or contracts, and empower the federal government to invade any state that attempts to subvert them).