Not to put too fine a point on it, Hayek thinks the danger of socialism is that it leads to something like fascism: “The rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.” One cannot get from there to the conclusion that it is worth allying with fascists in order to prevent socialism. You don’t defeat a slippery slope by jumping off the cliff and taking the shortcut to the bottom.Meanwhile, there are neoreactionary LARPers peddling unironic, risible odes to serfdom.
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