All Political Theories Assume, Of Course, That

Socialism Has Never And Nowhere Been At First A Working-class Movement.

It May Be That A Free Society... Carries In Itself The Forces Of Its Own Destruction, That Once Freedom Has Been Achieved It Is Taken For Granted And Ceases To Be Valued, And That The Free Growth Of Ideas Which Is The Essence Of A Free Society Will Bring About The Destruction Of The Foundations On Which It Depends.

It Seems To Me That Socialists Today Can Preserve Their Position In Academic Economics Merely By The Pretense That The Differences Are Entirely Moral Questions About Which Science Cannot Decide.

We Must Face The Fact That The Preservation Of Individual Freedom Is Incompatible With A Full Satisfaction Of Our Views Of Distributive Justice.

Even The Striving For Equality By Means Of A Directed Economy Can Result Only In An Officially Enforced Inequality - An Authoritarian Determination Of The Status Of Each Individual In The New Hierarchical Order.