To Those Who Claim FA Hayek Advocated a One World Government

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I'll quote F.A. Hayek's book on one world governmental planning directly from "The Road to Serfdom" itself...

"If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations. It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the “struggle” of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force. Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.'
If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too. visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other. The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people,^ merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow."

"Those who at least partly realize these dangers usually draw the conclusion that economic planning must be done ‘internationally,” i.e., by some supernational authority. But though this would avert some of the obvious dangers raised by planning on a national scale, it seems that those who advocate such ambitious schemes have little conception of the even greater difficulties and dangers which their proposals create. The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes. There need be little difficulty in planning the economic life of a family, comparatively little in a small community. But, as the scale increases, the amount of agreement on the order of ends decreases and the necessity to rely on force and compulsion grows. In a small community common views on the relative importance of the main tasks, agreed standards of value, will exist on a great many subjects. But their number will become less and less the wider we throw the net; and, as there is less community of views, the necessity to rely on force and coercion increases."

An Archived Scan of the The 1944 Edition of Road to Serfdom:

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.218162/page/n229/mode/2up

Those in question who peddled such an dastardly lie or have bad reading comprehension:

https://youtu.be/WUl32FIVwuQ?t=2301

https://youtu.be/ZYysClW5VTk?t=437

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