> Your socialism is closer to JS Mill's pseudo socialism than Marx's.
How can a Hayek based defense of "market" socialism be made consistent with the following from Mill?
"whenever it ceases to be true that mankind, as a rule, prefer themselves to others, and those nearest to them to those more remote, from that moment Communism is not only practicable, but the only defensible form of society; and will, when that time arrives, be assuredly carried into effect. For my own part, not believing in universal selfishness, I have no difficulty in admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the elite of mankind, and may become so among the rest." Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, <http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/xmil1861.htm>
As I've pointed out before, Keynes's criticism of Hayek on "planning" relies on this idea of differing degrees of ethical development (understood in Keynes's case, as in Marx's, as stages in the development and actualization of "reason"):
"Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if executed by those who think and feel wrongly." Keynes, Collected Writings, vol. XXVII, p. 388
Ted