Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, November 18 2009 @ 12:53 PM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. The French writers who laid the foundations of modern socialism had no doubts that their ideas could be put into practice only by strong dictatorial government.
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