• 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: 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.
    "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by Friedrich Hayek, The Intellectuals and Socialism (ch. 12), 1967.