HAYEK VS MARX IN JUST ONE BOOK
–‘Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion’– FA Hayek. “I just came across this quote from Hayek. I think I sort of know what he’s trying to say. I was hoping someone here was more familiar with the guy and could elaborate.–(Anon From Reddit)
Old post, but came up in search, so I’d offer an answer.
Hayek started with epistemology in the sense of the state of neuroscience of his age. He then understood the problem of economics as a constraint on the misbehavior of man. And then he understood and moved on to law as a constraint on the misbehavior of man. And the insight was really quite early in a simple pamphlet he wrote that would become very popular.
Hayek’s innovation in his pamphlet “A Road To Serfdom” was accounting for informal capital and especially informal capital in the commons that is the West’s competitive advantage, that of course Marx didn’t account for, and if he did it would falsify his entire framework even more so than the falsehood of the labor theory of value;
Or the pretense that a ‘society’ is a involuntary organization such as a family rather than superpredators who find convenience in peaceful cooperation until they don’t;
Or the false possibility of the failure of rule of law leading to market economies and the extraordinary wealth produced indirectly that is the opposite of what rule-by-man’s communism and socialism produce directly;
Or the even more absurd pretension that competence is distributed other than in by painful empiricism of demonstrated competency by survival in adversarial markets.
Or worse, that classes are not a reflection of genetic load and therefore ability.
Or worse, that credentialist intellectuals are capable of defeating the efforts of the pricing system, the credit system, the rule of law, and the decisions of those who, because of demonstrated competency in such a system defend that system and it’s continuous massive parallel computation of the optimum allocation of everything in everyone’s service of one another by selfish incentives.
It’s somewhat difficult to imagine why any interest in Marx as other than an attempt a pseudoscientific reformation of the abrahamic religion survives despite the evolutionary failure of class marxism, cultural marxism, sex marxism, truth marxism (postmodernism), Libertarianism (middle class marxism), Neoconservatism (upper class marxism), and the present resulting race marxism.
The marxist sequence is, as was the abrahamic sequence before it, feminine magical thinking in a desperate attempt to avoid individual responsibility for self, private and common, and the feminine and beta war against european civilization’s aristocratic, heroic, militaristic, expansionist, hierarchical, paternal, technological, sky worshipping, meritocratic foundations that demand individual responsibility of all in exchange for individual sovereignty and self determination – the most correspondent with the laws of nature man has developed, and the reason for the evolutionary velocity of the west in the bronze, iron, an steel ages, despite the abrahamic occult dark ages and this second attempt at the second abrahamic pseudoscientific dark ages.
The middle east is feminine in its foundations and it has been rebelling against the indo europeans since the beginnings of the recovery from the bronze age collapse. Marx’s feminism in cognition is simply a continuation of the feminine abrahamic means of baiting into hazard – the art of seduction applied to deception and submission in a war against the laws of nature – especially darwin.
Cheers.