Alienation and rationality—The retreat of postwar socialism

Petrik Runst () and Steven Horwitz ()

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2015, vol. 28, issue 2, 123-137

Abstract: Postwar socialist thought, such as the Frankfurt School, retreated from the Social Sciences due to its theoretical and empirical failures, as well as the discovery of Marx’ Paris Manuscripts. It shifted its emphasis away from exploitation. Instead, it dealt with human alienation in a prosperous world and other more philosophical concerns, such as the nature of rationality. We show that the Frankfurt School is not unique in dealing with these topics. The writings of F.A. Hayek, and, to a lesser extent, James Buchanan, focus on surprisingly similar observations but arrive at different conclusions. We also argue that the modern version of socialism is flawed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Frankfurt School; Socialist thought; Classical liberalism; B13; B14; P11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11138-014-0268-6

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