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Hayek o charakterze partii socjalistycznych na świecie oraz naiwnych i bezskutecznych działaniach światowej prawicy, czyli jak zwycięża socjalizm na świecie:

„Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists, deriving from certain tendencies in abstract thought with which for a long time only the intellectuals were familiar; and it required a long efforts by the intellectuals before working classes could be persuaded to adopt it as their programme. (...) Paradoxically enough, however, in general the parties of Left have done most to spread belief that it was the numerical strength of the opposing material interests which decided political issues, whereas in practice these same parties have regularly and successfully acted as if they understood the key position of the intellectuals. Whether by desing or driven by the force of circumstances, they have always directed their main effort towards gaining the support of this ‘elite’, while the more conservative groups have acted, as regularly but unsuccessfully, on a more naïve view of mass democracy and have usually vainly tried to reach and to persuade the individual voter.”

F.A Hayek, Intellectuals and Socialism

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