Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Hayek and the Austrian tradition
- 2 Hayek on money and the business cycle
- 3 Hayek and market socialism
- 4 Hayek and Marx
- 5 Hayek versus Keynes: the road to reconciliation
- 6 Hayek on knowledge, economics, and society
- 7 Hayek and Popper: the road to serfdom and the open society
- 8 Hayek’s politics
- 9 Hayek the philosopher of law
- 10 Hayek and liberalism
- 11 Hayek and conservatism
- 12 Hayek on the evolution of society and mind
- 13 Hayek on justice and the order of actions
- 14 Hayek the cognitive scientist and philosopher of mind
- Guide to Further reading
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Hayek and Marx
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2007
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Hayek and the Austrian tradition
- 2 Hayek on money and the business cycle
- 3 Hayek and market socialism
- 4 Hayek and Marx
- 5 Hayek versus Keynes: the road to reconciliation
- 6 Hayek on knowledge, economics, and society
- 7 Hayek and Popper: the road to serfdom and the open society
- 8 Hayek’s politics
- 9 Hayek the philosopher of law
- 10 Hayek and liberalism
- 11 Hayek and conservatism
- 12 Hayek on the evolution of society and mind
- 13 Hayek on justice and the order of actions
- 14 Hayek the cognitive scientist and philosopher of mind
- Guide to Further reading
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Hayek is recognized as the philosopher/economist who championed liberty and opposed socialism. Marx, especially after the experience of bolshevism, is seen as the high priest, if not the god, of socialism and the enemy of liberty. Hayek is thus anti-Marx as he is also anti-Keynes. Yet there are few direct references to Marx in Hayek's writings; and Marxists, for most of the period when Hayek was writing and beyond, have ignored him. (Gamble 1996 is a notable exception.) Democratic socialists or social democrats engaged in the debates about socialist calculation with Hayek much more in the 1930s (Hayek 1935b; Durbin 1985). By the time Hayek wrote his final book, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988), the Soviet Union was close to collapse and socialism as a doctrine had become beleaguered. Hayek was celebrated as the philosopher who inspired those who subverted the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. But it could be argued that by then Marx had little to do with Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union (Desai 2002).
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- The Cambridge Companion to Hayek , pp. 67 - 81Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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