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Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Illustrated Road to Serfdom by Hayek

Folks,

I found this link here for an old illustrated cartoon strip of Hayek's Road to Serfdom. Folks who are familiar with my story know that it was the reading of Road to Serfdom (the book not the cartoon) on a dare and the gentle tutelage of an old ex-Wehrmacht surgeon who dared me that saved my soul from the dark side of collectivist stupidity.

Let your kids read the cartoon. Anybody above the age of eighteen should read the book.

-- Mike
III

3 comments:

George Haystack said...: Once upon a time I considered myself a "libertarian socialist." Problem was, I could never find anyone who could present a reasonable economic system that was socialist. In the course of my reading, I decided to give Milton Friedman a whirl. While at the bookstore looking for a Friedman book, I saw Hayek's Road to Serfdom because it had been misfiled on the shelf. Someone had seen Friedman's name on the cover, since he wrote an introduction, and therefore it was filed with Friedman's books. A quick read of the back cover convinced me to buy The Road to Serfdom. I read it and abandoned the "socialist" part of "libertarian socialist," for I had learned that there could be no such thing. It really was a life changing book.; January 18, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Anonymous said...: The link in the post doesn't work, it goes to a blog, here is one that works for "The Road"
http://mises.org/books/TRTS/; January 18, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey ladies and fellas, could that series of cartoons be used as an X minutes to midnight clock? Ie, we are currently on frame #10 out of

I live in a country headed for frame # 14 - the temperature on the frogs is getting to the point that they are not nearly dead, but neither can they move out of the rapidly heating water any longer.

How close is the US to turning point?; January 18, 2009 at 8:25 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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The Illustrated Road to Serfdom by Hayek

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