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The Road to Serfdom - by F.A. Hayek

The Road to Serfdom is a book written between 1940 and 1943 by Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek.

The book was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944, during World War II, and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it "that unobtainable book", also due in part to wartime paper rationing. It was published in the United States by the University of Chicago Press in September 1944 and achieved great popularity.

The Road to Serfdom was to be the popular edition of the second volume of Hayek's treatise entitled "The Abuse and Decline of Reason",and the title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville on the "road to servitude". In the book, Hayek warns "of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning." He further argues that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism inevitably leads to a loss of 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 socialism had common roots in central economic planning and empowering the state over the individual.

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Introduction

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom02.ogg Chapter One -------- The Abandoned Road

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom03.ogg Chapter Two -------- The Great Utopia

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom04.ogg Chapter Three ------ Individualism and Collectivism

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom05.ogg Chapter Four ------- The Inevitability of Planning

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom06.ogg Chapter Five ------- Planning and Democracy

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom07.ogg Chapter Six -------- Planning and the Rule of Law

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom08.ogg Chapter Seven ------ Economic Control and Totalitarianism

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom09.ogg Chapter Eight ------ Who, Whom?

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom10.ogg Chapter Nine ------- Security and Freedoms

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Chapter Ten -------- Why the Worst Get on Top

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Chapter Eleven ----- The End of Truth

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Chapter Twelve ----- The Socialist Roots of Naziism

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Chapter Thirteen --- The Totalitarians in our Midst

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Chapter Fourteen --- Material Conditions and Ideal Ends

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Chapter Fifteen ---- The Prospects of International Order

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Chapter Sixteen ---- Conclusion

=>audiobook-F.A.Hayek-TheRoadToSerfdom01.ogg Biographical Material

The Anatomy of the State - by Murray N. Rothbard

This book gives a succinct account of Rothbard’s view of the state. Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity. It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in production. How can an organization of this type sustain itself? It must engage in propaganda to induce popular support for its policies. Court intellectuals play a key role here, and Rothbard cites as an example of ideological mystification the work of the influential legal theorist Charles Black, Jr., on the way the Supreme Court has become a revered institution.

=>audiobook-AnatomyOfTheState.ogg The Anatomy of the State audiobook

A History of Economic Thought - From Marx to Hayek by Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard died before he could write his third volume of his famous History of Economic Thought that would cover the birth and development of the Austrian School, through the Keynesian Revolution and Chicago School. However, he had already mapped out the entire project. Rothbard lectured on his discoveries and analysis of this period while he was researching the topic, and these recorded lectures are the result of his lectures at the Mises Institute. With these recordings, the History of Economic Thought is complete.

Ideologies and Theories of History

The Emergence of Communism

The Pre-Austrians

Menger and Bohm-Bawerk

Mises and Austrian Economics

Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries

George Orwell - 1984

1984 is a dystopian fiction novel and cautionary tale written by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of economics, people, thought, and behaviours within society. According to Orwell, this is reflective of both communism, and fascism. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics, the ways in which they are manipulated, and the creation of objects of hate by the State to focus and control the masses.

George Orwell - 1984 audiobook in .ogg format (large file - 384mb)

George Orwell - Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an allegorical novel first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of Communism.

George Orwell - Animal Farm audiobook in .ogg format

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