[PEN-L:1786] Re: More Polanyi vs. Hayek

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     For what it is worth, the major Austrians,
especially von Mises and Hayek, both strongly opposed "actually
existing fascism" in its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s.
Indeed this was the basis of Hayek's critique of welfare state
type socialism, that it would lead to fascism, _The Road to Serfdom_.
That there is nevertheless a justification
for state power to enforce "liberalism" in especially Hayek's
work is certainly true, despite all that.
     BTW, some time ago there was a great debate either here
or on pkt about whether or not Hayek supported the Pinochet
regime in Chile.  I don't think that was ever clearly resolved,
although some of the "Chicago Boys" who were advising Pinochet
were certainly Hayek fans.  I would be curious if anybody out
there could give a definitive answer to that one, Chile certainly
being a more recent example of "authoritarian state power" being
used to impose market capitalism, if not necessarily a case of
outright fascism.
Barkley Rosser