“We must here return for a moment to the position which precedes the suppression of democratic institutions and the creation of a totalitarian regime. In this state it is the general demand for quick and determined government action that is the dominating element in the situation, dissatisfaction with the slow and cumbersome course of democratic procedure which makes action for action’s sake the goal. It | Read More »
It really is amazing how much The Road to Serfdom can tell us about today’s world. The following passage jumped out at me during the reading this week: The power of the planner over our private lives would be no less complete if he chose not to exercise it by direct control of our consumption. Although a planned society would probably to some extent employ | Read More »
It is, for example, at least conceivable that the British automobile industry might be able to supply a car cheaper and better than cars used to be in the United States if everyone in England were made to use the same kind of car or that the use of electricity for all purposes could be made cheaper than coal or gas if everybody could be | Read More »
For this week’s discussion, I read the first two chapters of The Road to Serfdom. If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, run out and get it. The book is pretty easy to read, and the chapters aren’t very long. Hayek argues that in promoting a socialist type agenda, many of his contemporaries had abandoned freedom. He argues that in pursuing a socialist agenda, | Read More »
My copy of The Road to Serfdom contains four different introductions. While reading introduction number two, I came across a section that really made me think, and I wanted to explore that today with the Red State community. In the section entitled, Forward to the 1956 American Paperback edition, Hayek spends some time discussing the terms liberal and conservative. In explaining his intention of how | Read More »
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