"[...] Rothbard makes abundantly clear here, very important differences exist between the fallibilistic, utilitarian, small-government thinking of Hayek (and Friedman, and to a great degree Mises) and the rights-based anarchism of Rothbard and many of his followers, both of which coexist uneasily under the label libertarian.Die Ironie der Geschichte allerdings ist, daß heute Hayek (und Milton Friedman) immer häufiger in der Mainstream-Presse mit dem Begriff "Anarcho-Kapitalismus" identifiziert werden und dieses Etikett wiederum synonym mit "neoliberal" gebraucht wird. Da ist die Verwirrung der Geister dann wirklich komplett.In words that he never made or intended to make public in his lifetime, Rothbard calls Hayek’s most monumental statement about liberty and the political order “surprisingly and distressingly, an extremely bad, and, I would even say, evil book.” The “evil” part comes from the blow he thinks it will strike the libertarian movement, with Hayek then and even more later seen as libertarianism's most respectable and brilliant exponent.
Since Hayek supported political liberty only for instrumental reasons, and not nearly as far as the anarchist Rothbard, Rothbard felt Hayek's position would create a rhetorical “Even Hayek admits…” problem for more radical libertarians (which has been true, to some extent.) Rothbard's arguments against Hayek are not strictly pragmatic; he maintains that Hayek misunderstands the rational arguments for liberty and misstates the importance of rights arguments in classical liberal history. In a later, more conciliatory but still negative memo, Rothbard lists at many pages' length the various concessions Hayek makes to state power that Rothbard thinks are unnecessary and rights-violating, from government subsidies for public goods to government enterprises competing in the market to compulsory unemployment and old age insurance to aid to the indigent."
"In fact, Hayek is so associated with his beliefs in the failures of central planning, the powers of a free-market price system, and his demolition of “social justice” that many people familiar with him are surprised to find out that Hayek believes most of the bad things (from an anarcho-capitalist perspective) that Rothbard slams him for."
Eine Ironie der Geschichte ist es auf jeden Fall, wenn auch bei uns hier als Kollateralnutzen der fortschreitenden allgemeinen Verblödung die bis zur Selbstverleugnung anpaßlerischen "Nur-ja-nicht-anecken-Liberalen" (die sich sogar für manche "zu radikale" Idee Hayeks entschuldigen und auf Distanz gehen, und das bei der Stiftung, die seinen Namen trägt!) für einen Mut und eine intellektuelle Kompromißlosigkeit geprügelt werden, die sie gar nicht besitzen. Dann hat sich ihr serviles Kriechertum vor den herrschenden etatistischen Auffassungen wenigstens nicht ausgezahlt.
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Siehe auch die Replik von Steven Horwitz:
"The False Dichotomy"
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