Help! Do you know where these recordings might be found?
Submitted on 8 August, 2007 - 18:17
The magazine New International, in 1950, advertises a series of "wire-recordings for socialist education". They include a recording of a debate between Max Shachtman and Frederick von Hayek, on socialism vs capitalism, in February 1950.
If these recordings still exist, they would be of great interest - especially today, when many of Hayek's ideas have become the ruling orthodoxy.
The other advertised recordings are:
- Shachtman on the Tito-Stalin split
- Hal Draper on "new trends in American imperialism"
- Shachtman on "lessons of the Russian Revolution".
If you know of any copies of these recordings, please contact us.
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Stranger things have happened!
Do not give up hope. Recently a tape that nobody knew existed of a Charlie Parker / Dizzy Gillespie concert from 1945 was found in an Elks Hall somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Bruce
Hayek Mainstream???
I found the comment that Hayek's views were now mainstream rather odd. Hayek's disciples certainly would not agree that was the case. The Libertarians beleive that the US as much as Britain and other developed countries are socialist or at best mercantilist.
Its true that Thatcher took some advice from Hayek as did here Guru Keith Joseph, and many of the upper echelons of the US administration such as Greenspan were devotees of Ayn Rand - an Objectivist rather than Libertarian - but Greenspan ditched the Randian/Libertairian/Austrian economics approach for pragmatism, and a hugely inflationary monetary policy. Menahwile Thathcer ditched Hayek and Austrian Economics in favour of Friedman and Monetarism.
Hayek would have been appalled at the growth of monopoly capitalism under neo-Liberalism and the extent to which it has forged a corporatist link with the state, it was the very thing he opposed as being the driving force towards Bureuacratic Collectivism/socialism.
Austrian Economics, which should really be called Misean ecobnomics because it is completely different from the Economic School developed by Weiser, Menger, and Bohm-Bawerk, and the Libertarian politics that are associated with it was a direct consequence of the fears of the Austrian petit-bourgeois represented by Mises and his ilk at the possibility that workers might actually get the vote. It is grounded in and feeds off such petit-bourgeois fears and concerns. That is the cornerstone of the theory developed by Mises student Hayek. It stands completely counterposed to trhe interests of the big bouregoisie in whose interests neo-liberalism has been developed and whose interests it directly serves.
Arthur Bough