Published Saturday, August 16, 2008 by Friedrich A. Hayek
While most intellectuals are neither great scholars nor brilliant thinkers, these "second-hand dealers in ideas" are adept at one thing: taking the original ideas of others and then representing or promoting them to the general public. The battle for freedom must be won not by original thinkers, and not by practical reformers, but by a new generation of ideological — even utopian — classical-liberal intellectuals: journalists, teachers, and public figures who can "make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds."
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The Intellectuals and Socialism (8.25 MB)