Read for America: 2013

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Condensed version of "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek

The following is a link to a page containing a PDF of the 1945 Readers' Digest condensed version.
Road to Serfdom page https://mises.org/system/tdf/Road%20to%20Serfdom%20in%20Cartoons.pdf?file=1&type=document

It also contains the Cartoon Version from Look Magazine.

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Here's one quote from it:

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in

common but one word:

equality.

But notice the difference:

while democracy seeks equality in liberty,

socialism seeks equality

in restraint and servitude.”

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This book was first published in 1944 by the Univ. of Chicago Press

and was considered controversial, at a time when Stalin was popular.