@article{857021,
      recid = {857021},
      author = {Leeson, Robert,},
      title = {Hayek : a collaborative biography., Part XIII,: Fascism'  and liberalism in the (Austrian) classical tradition /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule 'not to be  concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on  public opinion.' However, evidence suggests that he was a  party political operative with 'free' market scholarship  being the vehicle through which he sought - and achieved -  party political influence. The 'main purpose' of his Mont  Pelerin Society had 'been wholly achieved'. Mises promoted  'Fascists' including Ludendorff and Hitler, and Hayekians  promoted the Operation Condor military dictatorships and  continue to maintain a 'united front' with 'neo-Nazis.'  Hayek, who supported Pinochet's torture-based regime and  played a promotional role in 'Dirty War' Argentina, is  presented as a saintly figure. These chapters place 'free'  market promotion in the context of the post-1965  neo-Fascist 'Strategy of Tension', and examine Hayek's role  in the promotion of deflation that facilitated Hitler's  rise to power; his proposal to relocate Gibraltarians  across the frontier into 'Fascist' Spain; the Austrian  revival of the 1970s; the role of (what was presented as)  'neutral academic data' on behalf of the 'International  Right' and their efforts to promote Franz Josef Strauss and  Ronald Reagan and defend apartheid and the Shah of Iran.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/857021},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91358-2},
}