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Friedrich von Hayek The Hayek Foundation (Moscow) is an international non-profit, privately funded organization. It received registration in the Russian Federation on 3 December 2002 (№ 1027717008901). The Hayek Foundation (Moscow) was established in Moscow as a non-governmental International political, financial, research and humane Center with its own neo-liberal political niche. It has been set up in keeping with its Trustees' vital preferences for the Western conservative tradition. It is oriented by its Guardians to provide financial support to independent public-political movements and institutes of states in the transitional period and to publish works of founders of classical liberalism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/ in Russian. The Foundation also gives support to science programs in the field of studying Open Society and restricting government authority to interfere in the economy of the country, of developing free enterprise and reinforcing national defense. The main mission of the Foundation is to spread knowledge about the attractiveness of modern capitalism as a public system, based on individual rights, private property and freedom of personality. The goal of the Foundation is to popularize ideas of new liberalism («neoliberalism», or libertarianism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ libertarianism/, or cosmopolitanism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmopolitanism/ ), according to which it is morally possible to use «non-consensual» force http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justification-public/ and to punish within the bounds of protecting the right of private property («neoconservatism») from illegal interference of the state machinery in the economy of the country and private life. It is well-known that bureaucratic arbitrariness of any kind violates common well-being of the people of the state under condition of a free market economy http://plato. stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/

The Hayek Foundation (Moscow) has been established in the period of deep economic recession in Russia, of high inflation, of deep crisis of national economy, caused by increased world competition, abrupt rise of world oil prices, reduction of the competitiveness of Russian industry, high unemployment, outflow of private capital and by escape of well-qualified personnel from the country. Russia is on the brink of a precipice.

The Hayek Foundation (Moscow) is governed by independent Counsel of Guardians. The Foundation is financed from private donations and advertisement incomes.

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What is Capitalism?

Capitalism is a social system based on one of the fundamental legal principles - respect for individual rights.

Capitalism: Historic Development

The social system of capitalism was conceived in the depths of feudalism in the XIV century.

Capitalism owes its rise to the free cities that emerged between XIV-XVI centuries along the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea coasts following burghal (communal) revolutions. A stratum of burghers later to be dubbed bourgeoisie was the bearer of the new capitalist principles.

Bourgeoisie was made up of the best of what the old feudalism's three estates could offer and became the mainstay of the progress's new principles. Bourgeoisie aimed at establishing a civil society in the shape of a bourgeois state founded on the rights of ownership, private property, parliamentary form of governance, as well as on rearing a private person, free individual, citizen as a bourgeois society member. According to Geugel, a citizen is a bourgeois, a civil society member.

The first bourgeois revolution in the Netherlands of the late XVI century, the 1640-1649 revolution in England, the 1789-1794 revolution in France legally secured bourgeois power in society. >>>

 

CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA

Russia does not possess an own "third" or "purely Russian way" of development that is not capitalist in either American or Western European sense. Russia is a part of Western Christian civilization. And society development laws, according to the experience accumulated throughout the XX century, are no different there than in other Western nations. I propose that we discount an array of transient phenomena like irresolution of national bourgeoisie, bureaucratized economic life, fanaticism, national intolerance, increasingly prominent state-run military-bureaucratic ideology, as well as the heroic pathos of the very poor in combating Western (American) mercenary spirit.

20th Century Socialism: Contradictions & Poverty

Back in the XX century the world at large observed the progress of socialism in Russia, on whose territory reigned a contradiction:

• On the one hand, manufacture of goods, the law of value and monetary circulation.
• On the other hand, the sphere of circulation, exchange and distribution where the state was the middleman for providing social justice on the basis on the non-monetary equivalent exchange.

In the Soviet Union the Soviet power through sheer military force realized the dream of many generations of Utopians to build an "enclosed commercial state" (Fichte). The Soviets reduced complicated labor to simple labor. They introduced a non-monetary calculation of complicated labor through monetary surrogates and commercial money. The Soviets set the value-through-labor theory against political economy. Socialists designed the "social" and "working" issue and devised social policies. It is common knowledge that "social policy" was practiced only in Germany and the Soviet Union. The Soviets "corrected" the distribution relationship through government intervention in the economy. This gave rise to "social" or "working" legislation, and as a result - famine and poverty. As is well known, "cancellation of income as a guarantee of social equality" was a socialist law. >>>

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"Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen."

 

"The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state"

Ludwig von Mises

 

 

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THE FORTUNES OF CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA

On 3 December 2004 The Heritage Foundation (Moscow) and The International Friedrich von Hayek Foundation (Moscow) put on a meeting devoted to capitalism’s fortunes in Russia. There was a significant participation of some 40 politicians, experts, journalists, and businessmen. Yevgeny Volk, Coordinator of Heritage’s Moscow office, President of The International Hayek Foundation (Moscow) and Yuri Petukhov, Chief Coordinator («C1» Moscow), The Hayek Foundation’s Executive Director and Vice-President addressed the meeting with opening speeches. >>>
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Sunday June 5 2005, is International Capitalism Day in Moscow!

«For the love of freedom! And the glory of human creativity!»

Worldwide rallies, concerts, debates, awards, street parties, workshops, fun and festivities!

 

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The Big Seven! Our Seven "official" thinkers for this campaign. Celebrate Capitalism™ encourages the study and appreciation of these great thinkers

Discover Thomas Jefferson & The American Founding Fathers

Here are a few of my personal favorites:

• Ludwig von Mises: "If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."
Ludwig von Mises: "The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism"
Ludwig von Mises: "The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."
Ludwig von Mises: "People can consume only what has been produced. The great problem of our age is precisely this: Who should determine what is to be produced and consumed, the people or the State, the consumers themselves or a paternal government?"
Ludwig von Mises: "The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state"
Ludwig von Mises: "The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power."
Ludwig von Mises: "The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty."
Ludwig von Mises: "The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."
Ludwig von Mises: "The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
Adam Smith: "Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it...He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."

Please support free trade, profit, money, free speech, technology, creativity, private property, individual rights, rule of law, innovation, human dignity and happiness! Sign up now for PLANET, the Celebrate Capitalism™ worklist for Coordinators and supporters And please let others know.

 

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