Review: The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition

The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition by Friedrich A. Hayek
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The Road to Serfdom is an intellectual attack on socialism. Hayek's main message was that central planning and public ownership would lead slowly but inevitably to totalitarianism. Written in the midst of a titanic struggle against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, the book offended many because it suggested that the intellectual influences in Germany were also present in Britain and the United States, and if unchecked would lead to totalitarian societies in those countries as well.

- Reviewed by Richard N. Cooper in the September/October 1997 issue of Foreign Affairs

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From Facebook "a right-wing classic,"
Glenn Beck:

America has always been about private land ownership. It has been a staple principle since the inception of America. So how do you convince a country like ours to be okay with the concept of owning nothing... and being happy? And if we don't own it, who will? At some point, we turned around on America's road to freedom and started heading down the road to serfdom.

"The Trump Republicans":

Let's Get Ready To Rumble. Biden & The Great Reset: The Road To Serfdom.

Ron Paul :

NATO has been obsolete for a long time. It should have been dissolved when the Cold War ended. After all, the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, and thank goodness for that. It would be quite unnerving were the Warsaw Pact still around and gobbling up countries that border the United States. Americans would rightfully be concerned about the motivations behind such actions.
NATO's secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg is out telling Donald Trump that: “Going it alone is not an option". In other words, America can't just defend itself.

We're yet to see which way President Trump decides to go. Will he continue us on the current road to serfdom, or will he heed the words of Jefferson who said: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."

"Of all checks on democracy, federation has been the most efficacious...."
"Far from its being true that, as is now widely believed, we need an international economic authority while the states can at the same time retain their unrestricted political sovereignty, almost exactly the opposite is true. What we need and can hope to achieve is not more power in the hands of irresponsible international economic authorities, but, on the contrary, a superior political power which can hold the economic interests in check, and in the conflict between them can truly hold the scales, because it is itself not mixed up in the economic game. The need is for an international political authority which, without power to direct the different people what they must do, must be able to restrain them from action which will damage others."
Federal Democracy,
Federalism

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