Most people think changing the world requires politics, protests, or going viral.

But the most powerful revolution in modern history was built by a man you've never heard of—using a strategy nobody talks about anymore.

His name was Antony Fisher. And he freed entire countries without holding office once.

Fisher was a WWII fighter pilot who watched his own government embrace the same centralized control he'd just fought the Nazis to defeat.

His first instinct? Run for office and fight the system directly.

Then he met F.A. Hayek, who asked him one devastating question.

"Who would vote for you with those ideas?" Hayek asked.

Then he revealed something that changed everything: "Politics is just a reflection of society's dominant ideas. Change the ideas, and politics follows."

Fisher left that meeting with a completely different battle plan.

Instead of fighting politicians, Fisher started the Institute of Economic Affairs, focusing on students and intellectuals.

They didn't lobby. They didn't protest. They didn't chase headlines.

They just taught better ideas to the people who would become tomorrow's leaders.

Hayek had discovered how socialist ideas conquered the 20th century:

Scholars create ideas. Intellectuals spread them. Politicians adopt them. Society accepts them.

Fisher used the same pyramid. But for freedom.

The result? Margaret Thatcher slammed Hayek's book on the table at her first cabinet meeting, declaring "This is what we believe!"

The same pattern worked in Estonia, Georgia, Latvia. Countries that went from communism to among the freest economies in one generation.

Today's campus leftism isn't an accident. It's Fisher's strategy in reverse.

70% of Gen Z supports socialist policies. These aren't just college opinions. They're tomorrow's laws.

The battle for freedom happens in classrooms, not Congress.

Fisher understood what most freedom fighters miss: you don't change the world by fighting the system. You change it by building the minds that will rebuild the system.

🖋️: Students for liberty