Contributed by: filbert Saturday, November 21 2009 @ 11:19 AM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
Socialism was embraced by the greater part of the intelligentsia as the apparent heir of the (classical) liberal tradition: therefore it is not surprising that to them the idea of socialism’s leading to the opposite of liberty should appear inconceivable.
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