Editing Friedrich Hayek (section)

=== ''The Road to Serfdom'' ===
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Hayek was concerned about the general view in Britain's academia that fascism was a capitalist reaction to socialism and ''The Road to Serfdom'' arose from those concerns.<ref>{{Cite web|last=kanopiadmin|date=18 August 2014|title=The Road to Serfdom|url=https://mises.org/library/road-serfdom-0|access-date=28 April 2021|website=Mises Institute|language=en|archive-date=15 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915010727/https://mises.org/library/road-serfdom-0|url-status=live}}</ref> In the book, Hayek {{nowrap|"[warns]}} of the danger of [[tyranny]] that inevitably results from government control of economic [[decision-making]] through [[Planned economy|central planning]]."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ebeling |first=Richard M. |date=May 1999 |title=Friedrich A. Hayek: A Centenary Appreciation |url=http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/friedrich-a-hayek-a-centenary-appreciation/# |url-status=dead |journal=The Freeman |volume=49 |issue=5 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415224932/http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/friedrich-a-hayek-a-centenary-appreciation/ |archive-date=2013-04-15}}</ref> He further argues that the abandonment of [[individualism]] and [[classical liberalism]] inevitably leads to a loss of [[Liberty|freedom]], the creation of an oppressive society, the tyranny of a [[dictator]], and the [[serfdom]] of the individual. Hayek challenged the view, popular among British Marxists, that [[fascism]] (including [[Nazism]]) was a [[capitalist]] reaction against [[socialism]]. He argued that fascism, Nazism, and state-socialism had common roots in central economic planning and empowering the state over the individual.

The title was inspired by the French classical liberal thinker [[Alexis de Tocqueville]]'s writings on the "road to servitude".<ref>Ebenstein, p. 116.</ref> It was first published in Britain by [[Routledge]] in March 1944 and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it "that unobtainable book" also due in part to wartime paper rationing.<ref>Ebenstein, p. 128.</ref> When it was published in the United States by the University of Chicago in September of that year, it achieved greater popularity than in Britain.<ref>A.J. Tebble, ''F.A. Hayek'', Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010, p. 8</ref> At the instigation of editor [[Max Eastman]], the American magazine ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' also published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling ''The Road to Serfdom'' to reach a far wider audience than academics. The book is widely popular among those advocating [[individualism]] and [[classical liberalism]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Beam|first1=Christopher|title=The Trouble With Liberty|url=https://nymag.com/news/politics/70282/index2.html|access-date=7 November 2015|work=New York Magazine|publisher=New York Media, LLC|date=3 January 2011|archive-date=21 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921023511/https://nymag.com/news/politics/70282/index2.html|url-status=live}}</ref>