Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!. Jonah Goldberg
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In his book The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, Hayek wrote, "In the world of knowledge, objects are known because they are known through perception, but knowledge is a product of perception." He continued by saying that "what holds in the world of knowledge must hold in the world of action," and that "it is only when individuals perceive themselves as linked together in a series of chains that they can understand why their actions have an effect on one another."

Source: The Tyranny Of ClichaS: How Liberals Cheat In The War Of Ideas

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