Reddit reviews Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

>No it was aimed at petite bourgeois idiots in America the biggest market for books written in English.

I don't know why you feel the need to contradict me on this. The quotes below prove it.

Below is excerpted from the Foreword to the American Paperback Edition 1956 The Road to Serfdom After 12 Years. It is Chapter 15, p216 in the collection Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

>"This book might in some respects have been different if I had written it in the first instance with American readers primarily in mind. It has by now made for itself too definite, if unexpected, a place in this country to make any rewriting advisable."

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>"The book was written in England during the war years and was designed almost exclusively for English readers. Indeed, it was addressed mainly to a very special class of reader in England. It was in no spirit of mockery that I dedicated it 'To the socialists of All Parties'. It has it's origin in many discussion which, during the preceding ten years, I had with friends and colleagues whose sympathies had been inclined towards the left, and it was in continuation of those arguments that I wrote The Road to Serfdom".

As for Orwell, he wrote a positive review of The Road to Serfdom, agreeing with Hayek on his diagnosis, but disagreeing with him on his cure..

>.In the negative part of Professor Hayek’s thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often – at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough – that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamed of.