1. F.A. Hayek in 1947, criticizing denazification. “It is scarcely easier to justify the prevention of a person from fiddling because he was a Nazi than the prevention because he is a Jew.” It's worth unpacking this a little. https://twitter.com/zeithistoriker/status/1172516420917354496 …
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7. Of course, Hayek's great ally in Austrian economics, Ludwig von Mises, was even more explicitly pro-fascist.https://twitter.com/MetroidThief/status/1172570243136442368 …
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8. Anyways, thanks to the Cold War and the protests of people like Hayek, denazification was soon ended and some real monsters escaped justice.
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9. “It is scarcely easier to justify the prevention of a person from fiddling because he was a Nazi than the prevention because he is a Jew.” When people talk about a libertarian to alt-right pipeline, they might want to ponder Hayek's role.
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Also, full-fledged party membership was uncommon - 10% of the population at its peak. This wasn’t some vast, arbitrary category.
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Surely there was no Nazi party in 1947, and denazification was directed at former members of the former Nazi party.
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