I would not call them socialist exactly but the philospical background for both ideas is quite simular. This is history that is mostly ignored or simply pased

I would not call them socialist exactly but the philospical background for both ideas is quite simular. This is history that is mostly ignored or simply pased out of memory. Their was a version of socialism that was called 'Prussian Socialism' and the thinkers from this area had quite a bit of influence on the later devlopment of facism. Many facists like mussolini were socialist that were pissed of by the socialist party. Hitler took a party with socialist elements and retracked it so that the socalist parts were neglected. If you look at the original 23 points of the Nazi party, they look fairly simlular to many moderet socialist parties of the time. The first chapter of Hayek 'The Road to Freedom' is an exploration of the history of thought. It was originally be intended to be part of a book on the subject (The Use and Abuse of Reason Part 1) but he had to no time and so he released it as a more populist book. Sadly this chapter did not get the attention needed and was removed in the version that became a best seller in the US (Readers Digest Version).