1 posted on
01/28/2007 9:29:03 AM PST by
Jacquerie
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To: Jacquerie
An exceptional book, though not exactly light reading.
2 posted on
01/28/2007 9:32:50 AM PST by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Jacquerie
This book is a must read IMHO. It puts the entire economic/class/welfare question into its true perspective.
3 posted on
01/28/2007 9:32:55 AM PST by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: Jacquerie
Thank you for posting this. Unfortunately, it seems that we are going to learn of the grim consequences of socialist policy, the hard way.
4 posted on
01/28/2007 9:34:16 AM PST by
oblomov
(Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. - von Mises)
To: Jacquerie
I'd put it on the "must" reading list, not just on the the "recommended" list.
6 posted on
01/28/2007 9:35:13 AM PST by
P.O.E.
To: Jacquerie
What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.Worth repeating.
Perhaps someday it will sink in to the masses.
7 posted on
01/28/2007 9:39:14 AM PST by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Jacquerie
BTT I'll look for it. Thanks for posting.
8 posted on
01/28/2007 9:39:27 AM PST by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
To: Jacquerie
Found
the book in image form on mises.org. Scary but eerily parallel to events in our own nation. I think that we are around step 9, curiously just before "the strong man is given power" in step 10 (would that be Hillary in 2008?).
Found this quote from the book in Wikipedia: "The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule."
I didn't know about this book until this post on FR . . . now I may have to find a copy and read it.
9 posted on
01/28/2007 9:44:00 AM PST by
rabscuttle385
(Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
To: Jacquerie
Sounds like an excellent read, unfortunately it will have to wait till this summer. I found the dedication...
Dedicated To the Socialists of All Parties
...particularly interesting and something that we should keep in mind as we move into the primary season.
11 posted on
01/28/2007 9:47:22 AM PST by
Old_Mil
(http://www.gohunter08.com/)
To: Jacquerie
Hayek had an uncanny psychological insight into the political wiles of human predators. OTH, maybe that's normal for economists.
The Road to Serfdom gives eyes to the oppressed. I'd have to read it again for signs that teach us freedom.
12 posted on
01/28/2007 9:47:36 AM PST by
cornelis
To: Jacquerie
To: Jacquerie
The road to serfdom is paved by "free trade".
22 posted on
01/28/2007 10:32:13 AM PST by
hedgetrimmer
(I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: Jacquerie
Great book. BTW Hayek was not english but Austrian born. Either way what he wrote is prescient today.
My conclusion on observing the left in the west really comes down not to ideology but to class. The left under their guise to 'help the disenfranchised" will invevitably pave the way to totalitarianism. all movements of liberation have offered the masses the same: liberation from tyranny, a new social order where the new man will be freed from the tyranny of servitute, history, class, race, etc.
But the 'struggle' is never ending. the war of liberation is perpetual. the left is always preparing for war and as a result those who do not support the movement are branded as enemies of the revolution and so on. Then the cycle of tyranny continues.
What the left despises is a free citizenry that left to it's own devices, will not follow the perscribed marxist plan. Thus they find refuge in institutions such as the judiciary, media and the academia just to name a few, that is at arms length of the democratic process. Offering them leverage to push through an agenda that may not be accepted in an open ballot. Abortion, gay marriage, stem-cell research and so on.
I suggest you pick up Robert Bork Slouching's Towards Gomorrah, The Theory of Moral Sentiment by Adam Smith. Anything by Locke & Voltaire just to name a few. Hayek is part of the same tangent of voices as others that warn us again and again that tyranny lurkes around the corners of history.
23 posted on
01/28/2007 10:32:58 AM PST by
bubman
25 posted on
01/28/2007 10:40:17 AM PST by
true_blue_texican
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: Jacquerie
34 posted on
01/28/2007 2:02:31 PM PST by
sauropod
( "The View:" A Tupperware party in the 10th circle of Hell.)
To: Jacquerie
Bump for an excellent book.
35 posted on
01/28/2007 2:05:04 PM PST by
spunkets
To: Jacquerie
Sounds very much like Herbert Spencer's essays from a hundred years earlier and collected by Truxtun Beale in "The Man Versus The State".
36 posted on
01/28/2007 6:07:44 PM PST by
fella
(Respect does not equal fear unless your a tyrant.)
To: Jacquerie; All
bump to encourage all to read this book
(we need a "booklist" bump list)
38 posted on
01/28/2007 7:38:36 PM PST by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: TR Jeffersonian
41 posted on
01/29/2007 8:18:38 AM PST by
kalee
(No burka for me....EVER!)
To: Jacquerie
The Road to Serfdom, a slim volume, masterfully outlined Hayek's major arguments against socialism. The Constitution of Liberty, written some fifteen years later, provides probably the most complete presentation of Hayek's thought on economics and politics, and is an excellent choice as the other book that must be read if only two of Hayek's works are to be chosen.
43 posted on
01/29/2007 1:21:31 PM PST by
beckett
(Amor Fati)
To: Jacquerie
One of my favorites. I in particular like his comparison of Nazis and Communists. See the 3rd quote on my FReeper profile page, the 2-paragraph one.
45 posted on
01/29/2007 2:53:34 PM PST by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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