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THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
Reader's Digest, April 1945 edition ^
| 1945
| FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK
Posted on 03/06/2008 8:00:03 PM PST by ScratInTheHat
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To: ScratInTheHat
BTW - Olasky’s “The Tragedy of American Compassion” is well worth the read. And I second Friedman's “Freedom to Choose” which is what made me cross over from liberalism (feelings) to conservatism (common sense) when I was in my early 20s.
To: ScratInTheHat
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posted on
03/06/2008 8:45:32 PM PST
by
libbylu
(I voted for Nixon,Ford,Reagan,Bush,Dole,Bush. NO WAY MCCAIN.)
To: Sam Cree
Another book that links great minds.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3492461.html
The Courage of Friedrich Hayek
By William F. Buckley Jr.
As we look back on the excitement caused by the publication of Friedrich Hayeks Road to Serfdom, we wonder how it could have happened. It is a tribute to him, and to his small book, that we should be able to say this. The principal theses of the book are by now so very well known, even if they are not by any means universally accepted, that they appear almost self-evident.
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posted on
03/06/2008 9:00:30 PM PST
by
ScratInTheHat
(Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
To: Perdogg
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posted on
03/06/2008 9:06:25 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Sam Cree
“Road to Serfdom, required reading.”
Yes for sure...this is one of the books that I make sure I read EVERY year and every time I read it I find more nuggets of truth and insight into the insanity called “socialism.”
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posted on
03/06/2008 9:06:45 PM PST
by
Towed_Jumper
(Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
To: american colleen
How did I know you must be from Mass. just by your screen name American Colleen. It means American Girl in English.
Good for you, honey and keep thinking for yourself.
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posted on
03/06/2008 9:24:09 PM PST
by
KPfromDerryNH
(Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the ideals of feminism.)
To: ScratInTheHat
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posted on
03/06/2008 9:25:19 PM PST
by
jim-x
(God help America survive its enemies within.)
To: ScratInTheHat
This book should be read alongside C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. These are both two of the best, most prescient books I’ve ever read.
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posted on
03/06/2008 9:45:42 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: ScratInTheHat
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posted on
03/06/2008 11:00:34 PM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Refusing to calm down since the Waco massacre.)
To: wintertime
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posted on
03/07/2008 12:39:53 AM PST
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
To: ScratInTheHat
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posted on
03/07/2008 12:54:37 AM PST
by
J Aguilar
(Veritas vos liberabit)
To: ScratInTheHat
This piece is currently lying on the staircase bannister five feet to my left. It should be required reading in every senior high school in the country. Before the little ignoramuses get to college.
To: the invisib1e hand
Glenn Beck talked about this and some Lib called him a lair.Lair, lair, pants on fair!
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posted on
03/07/2008 2:55:33 AM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: ScratInTheHat
The socialist have all the Sheeple. We are doomed.
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posted on
03/07/2008 2:57:58 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
To: ScratInTheHat
This does not mean that the majority of people have low moral standards; it merely means that the largest group of people whose values are very similar are the people with low standards. The secret of the Democratic Party.
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posted on
03/07/2008 5:08:29 AM PST
by
Tribune7
(How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
To: ScratInTheHat
Heck, the Republicans need to read it as badly as the Dems. Have you read some of the idiotic comments here lately?
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posted on
03/07/2008 5:09:42 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
To: ScratInTheHat
Thanks for the recommendation; I’ll have to acquire Buckley’s book.
I suppose the principle theses of RTS are well known by now by many of us, OTOH, even the majority here on FR don’t seem that well versed or accepting of them. I have no doubt also that as a nation we continue to move leftward.
I agree about them being self evident, though.
Reagan and Thatcher were followers of Hayek, interestingly, and as you probably already know.
Thanks for the original post, btw.
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posted on
03/07/2008 9:23:09 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: Towed_Jumper
"...this is one of the books that I make sure I read EVERY year and every time I read it I find more nuggets of truth and insight into the insanity called socialism. I'm just rereading RTS again myself - I think it's more inspiring this time than when I first read it some 10 years ago. Also gave a copy to my 25 year old daughter, who wanted to know my thoughts on politics.
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posted on
03/07/2008 9:26:04 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: Sam Cree
should say “even more inspiring”
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posted on
03/07/2008 9:31:36 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: ovrtaxt
Heck, the Republicans need to read it as badly as the Dems. Have you read some of the idiotic comments here lately?I agree
But then again how many conservatives even claim to be republican now?
The Bush, Lott, Graham, etc. line of thought lost me a while back. It's like getting that bag of nuts (no pun intended here, well maybe a little LOL) and as you eat them you hit so many that are bad you just toss the whole pack away.
We just need a new bag of nuts! (OK the pun boomeranged on me and I couldn't resist LOL)
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posted on
03/07/2008 9:40:18 AM PST
by
ScratInTheHat
(Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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