Word: serfdom
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...years Benes' homeland knew the tearing strains and compromises and moral storms of occupation. As in other lands of the New Order, not all Czechs and Slovaks were heroes; some made their reluctant peace with serfdom, some had even welcomed the conqueror. But many fought and many died. In exile, Benes won Allied support for his refugee government, organized a new Czechoslovak army, kept close contact with the homeland's hopes and fears, and planned a new synthesis. "Ideas do not stand still," he said. "We accept the catch phrase of the last war: 'The cure...
...Indian study, Wah'kon-tah, the first university press book to become a Book-of-the-Month); Princeton (which he left to become, briefly, president of Oklahoma), and the University of Chicago, where he has continued to publish salable books by scholars (a recent one. The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek...
...Road to Serfdom. "There is to be one state to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives. This state is to be arch-employer, arch-planner, arch-administrator and ruler and arch-caucus boss. How is an ordinary citizen or subject of the King to stand up against this formidable machine, which, once it is in power, will prescribe for every one of them where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say, what views they are to hold and within what limits they...
Aroused by Friedrich A. Hayek's controversial "Read to Serfdom," which he brands an "filled with every fallacy known brands an "filled with every fallacy known to the study of logic," Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, announces that he is writing a "Road to Reaction" as an answer to what he considers "dangerous and deceptive" reasoning...
...however," stressed Sorokin, "a partisan of totalitarian economy. I am merely 'a conservative Christian anarchist'; I do not like any government." With this declaration, Harvard's stormy sociologist clarified his position in the controversy that, is currently raging over Friedrich A. Hayek's new book "The Road to Serfdom...