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Re:How the West Got China Wrong by jonathanstrange on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:44AM (#16501267)
Hayek is not a capitalist, he's a Social Darwinist who also believes - without a shred of evidence, given the shortness of the time spans under consideration - that free market capitalism gives groups an evolutionary advantage. That's a huge difference.
Re:How the West Got China Wrong by freeflight on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:02AM (#16501380)
Isn't Social Darwinism just the outcome of arguing that "laissez-faire capitalism solves everything by weeding out the weak"?

It has nothing at all to do with socialism and the Darwinism rather references Darwin's evolutionary concepts in a "survival of the fittest" way.

Afaik it's nothing anybody would label themselves as.