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This poetry of despair sprang from the depths of serfdom, in lands where the soil is hard, the sun is cold, and foreign masters have always been harder and colder than either. For centuries, Baltic peasants have labored for their feudal lords-Swedes, Russians, Poles, Germans. Today, the Baltic peasant serves an old master under a new form of serfdom. He serves Communist Russia...
...problem than it was 35 years ago in the time of Dictator Porfirio Diaz. Since then, farm production has risen 23%, population 60%. The bloody revolution begun by mild little Francisco Madero in 1910 cracked the feudal system and released three-quarters of a million peasants in mud-floor serfdom from the grip of a few hundred landowning families. But the revolutionaries themselves lived on and despoiled the country, which never had enough farmland (only 12% potentially arable...
This newest attempt to bake a cake that we can both have and eat is one Britisher's answer to Professor Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" which argues the complete incompatibility of freedom and planning. Wootton defines freedom as the ability to do what you want, planning as a conscious choice of economic priorities by a public authority, and points out the area where planning does not necessarily mean curtailment of freedom. The book is perhaps more valuable as a picture of an ideal equilibrium than an aid in solving contemporary economic problems...
Baseball's big league owners were worried about the loyalty of the help. A few genuine pros had already succumbed to Jorge Pasquel's gold-plated offers of Mexican liberation from serfdom. Many other ballplayers had cocked a sympathetic but suspicious ear. Quite a number had flirted fitfully with Robert Murphy's baseball union (TIME, June 3). Last week, the owners opened an offensive to kill disgruntlement with kindness...
Finer's most recently published book was "Road to Reaction," an answer to Friedrich Hayek's volume "Road to serfdom...