一、基于没落贵族的阶级立场，哈耶克具有鲜明的反民主倾向。
他的《通向奴役之路》刚刚在美国出版，就受到政治学家Finer的严厉指责：这是在一个多年实践民主的国家里出现的对民主的最邪恶进攻。
The political scientist Herman Finer, on the other hand, denounced it (The Road to Serfdom) as “the most sinister offensive against democracy to emerge from a democratic country for many years.”
他在访问皮诺切特獨裁统治下的智利以後，对智利皮氏表示赞赏；历史学家Grandin讥讽他忽略了被皮氏处决的数千人和被折磨的数万人。
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
"of course," writes Grandin, "the thousands executed and tens of thousands tortured by Pinochet's regime weren't talking."
选择性失明是哈耶克惯伎，稍後还将详加剖析。哈耶克的追随者对美国入侵伊拉克造成平民死亡逾十万的事实讳莫如深，显然是承续了哈氏衣钵。
三、哈耶克不明白，自发秩序总会产生冲突，那就需要强权解决争端；冲突愈激烈，强权越集中。哈耶克把经济学上的亚当·斯密精神盲目地套用到社会学上，忽略了两个领域内冲突解决机制的不同。
事实上，今天西北欧大多数国家都已经以社会主义自居了，哈耶克的“通向奴役之路”已经被证伪。哈耶克的理论错误在于，政府拥有干预国民的手段是正当而且必须的；能干预并不意味着必然干预，因为政府干预国民需要考虑成本、後果。尤其是民主制度，有效地规范了政府对国民的干预行为。
经济学家萨缪尔森不久前讥讽地质疑：恐怖集中营在哪里呢？意指右翼分子妖魔化瑞典那样的福利国家，其依据就是错误的“走向奴役之路”理论。
The economist Paul Samuelson, in a reminiscence of Hayek published last December, was more dismissive still. “Where are their horror camps?” he asked, referring to right-wing bugaboos like Sweden, with its generous welfare spending. Almost 70 years after Hayek sounded his alarm, “hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.”
哈耶克在《走向奴役之路》中，更是不惜自搧耳光，主张政府要承担福利职能。
In Hayek's view, the central role of the state should be to maintain the rule of law, with as little arbitrary intervention as possible.
However, the complete picture is not black and white. Hayek did write that the state has a role to play in the economy, and specifically, in creating a "safety net." He wrote: "There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom; that is: some minimum of food, shelter and clothing, sufficient to preserve health. Nor is there any reason why the state should not help to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance in providing for those common hazards of life against which few can make adequate provision."
由于哈耶克学说的封闭、陈腐、随意、褊狭、僵滞，他在思想市场上的竞争力低得可怜，现在只是被某些人当作政治斗争的武器而反复提及。不知崇尚自由竞争的哈耶克，泉下有何感想？
If you can’t win in the marketplace of ideas, turn to government institutions to prop you up,
