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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
June 28, 2014
Pages
50
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Ill
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781500345600
ISBN-10
1500345601
Dimensions
0.12 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$8.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Road to Serfdom By Friedrich A. Hayek New Edition The very magnitude of the outrages committed by the National Socialists has strengthened the assurance that a totalitarian system cannot happen here. But let us remember that 15 years ago the possibility of such a thing happening in Germany would have appeared just as fantastic not only to nine-tenths of the Germans themselves, but also to the most hostile foreign observer. There are many features which were then regarded as âtypically Germanâ which are now equally familiar in America and England, and many symptoms that point to a further development in the same direction: the increasing veneration for the state, the fatalistic acceptance of âinevitable trendsâ, the enthusiasm for âorganizationâ of everything (we now call it âplanningâ). The character of the danger is, if possible, even less understood here than it was in Germany. The supreme tragedy is still not seen that in Germany it was largely people of good will who, by their socialist policies, prepared the way for the forces which stand for everything they detest. Few recognize that the rise of fascism and the road to serfdom. Marxism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies. Yet it is significant that many of the leaders of these movements, from Mussolini down (and including Laval and Quisling) began as socialists and ended as fascists or Nazis. In the democracies at present, many who sincerely hate all of Nazismâs manifestations are working for ideals whose realization would lead straight to the abhorred tyranny. Most of the people whose views influence developments are in some measure socialists. They believe that our economic life should be âconsciously directedâ that we should substitute âeconomic planningâ for the competitive system. Yet is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?
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About: The Road to Serfdom By Friedrich A.
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