>  
>What is at issue here is the tendency of some to bash  
>scholars about whom they know very little. I have  
>heard some scholars bash Mises and Hayek in ways that  
>make absolutely no sense. For example, at the HES last  
>summer someone mirespresented Hayek by claiming that  
>the Road to Serfdom argued that any small step towards  
>intervention would lead to a Hitlerean society. I  
>confronted this person afterwards, and he admitted  
>that he really did not know much about the RTS.  
>  
  
  
Hayek does buy the dreadful Misesian cumulative 'logic of intervention' argument though
right?
  
"It is not necessary to review the familiar economic arguments which show why mere
'interventionism' is self-defeating and self-contradictory, and how, if the central
purpose of intervention is to be achieved, intervention must expand until it becomes a
comprehensive system of planning" (Hayek [1939] 1997, pp.199-200).
  
Andrew Farrant