Hayek, gli individui e le comunità

Hayek, Individuals and Communities

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Liberalism has traditionally been interpreted by left and right alike as the ideology of the strong and the violent. One of the victims of this misunderstanding of liberal theory during the present century has been the thinking of Friedrich A. von Hayek, accused more than once of formulating a philosophy to promote an unjust social order based on the will of the wealthy and those controlling the means of production. This essay seeks to develop a reflection upon the alleged "inhumanity" of Hayek's conception and on its "absence of solidarity and sociality", denounced by scholars of the right and the left who accuse Hayek of having a historicist, Darwininian vision supposedly aimed at lending an ideological cover to what they regard as the exploitation system of western capitalism.