great irony: Hayek, one greatest champions individual liberty economic — Jonah Goldberg, Tyranny Clich?�s: Liberals Cheat War Ideas

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Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!

Jonah Goldberg, The Tyranny of Clich?�s: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

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