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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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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You do know von Mises was Jewish, right?
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Mises in 1927: [...]Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has [...] saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.
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