Socialism has never been about 'freedom'. Socialism can only triumph when and where the mind is corrupted and damaged via indoctrination. Indoctrination is the opposite of a free mind.Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere- F A Hayek,The Road to Serfdom (Reader's Digest Condensed Version)
My daughter’s belief in AGW is genuine and sincere, too - and utterly ill-founded.The rest of the quote from which you pulled that - say nothing of the book as a whole - is a polemic against socialism. I commend the link to you, if you have never read Serfdom. It is, as you likely may know, a classic written during WWII by an Austrian emigre in England.