Road to Serfdom

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

The Road to Serfdom and Debt Slavery

1. War forces national planning

2. Many want planning to stay

3. Planners promise utopia

4. Utopia fails to materialize

5. Consensus through propaganda

6. Illusion of consensus fades

7. Strong man given power

8. Party takes over country

9. Party unified through scapegoats

10. Opposition eliminated

11. Planning extends to the individual

12. Tyranny