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To: FreedomPoster
If you have not read The Road to Serfdom, you should. It isn’t that long.
If you read The Road to Serfdom (Reader’s Digest Condensed Version here), you will see that FA Hayek used the term “liberal” to denote people who today would be called “conservatives” in America. That is because Hayek, an Austrian, learned English in America before the meaning of “liberal” was essentially inverted, according to Safire's New Political Dictionary, in the 1920s. And the meaning of “liberal” was not changed in Britain, where Hayek wrote Serfdom during WWII.

28 posted on 02/04/2017 3:59:38 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

There’s no doubt that a “liberal of the old type” would mean a conservative today. He then goes on to talk about “those who really believe in individual freedom”, which is clearly not our modern liberals.

The Left switches terms often as their ideas are found out.


29 posted on 02/04/2017 4:06:54 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Oh, and then there’s always the cartoon version:

https://mises.org/system/tdf/Road%20to%20Serfdom%20in%20Cartoons.pdf?file=1&type=document


31 posted on 02/04/2017 4:13:32 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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