Class Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

“Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.”

Friedrich August von Hayek

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