Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part XIII: 'Fascism' and Liberalism in the (Austrian) Classical Tradition (Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics)

by RobertLeeson (Editor), Robert Leeson (Editor)

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  2018

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  Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule `not to be concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on public opinion.' However, evidence suggests that he was a party political operative with `free' market scholarship being the vehicle through which he sought - and achieved - party political influence. The `main purpose' of his Mont Pelerin Society had `been wholly achieved'. Mises promoted `Fascists' including Ludendorff and Hitler, and Hayekians promoted the Operation Condor military dictatorships and continue to maintain a `united front' with `neo-Nazis.' Hayek, who supported Pinochet's torture-based regime and played a promotional role in `Dirty War' Argentina, is presented as a saintly figure. These chapters place `free' market promotion in the context of the post-1965 neo-Fascist `Strategy of Tension', and examine Hayek's role in the promotion of deflation that facilitated Hitler's rise to power; his proposal to relocate Gibraltarians across the frontier into `Fascist' Spain; the Austrian revival of the 1970s; the role of (what was presented as) `neutral academic data' on behalf of the `International Right' and their efforts to promote Franz Josef Strauss and Ronald Reagan and defend apartheid and the Shah of Iran