Speaking of F. A. Hayek, his ageless essay, "The Road to Serfdom," warns intellectuals how easy it is for a society go get swept away by promises of a better life and end up under the thumb of a totalitarian. A version titled The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) is currently ranked number 213 at Amazon.
For the rest of us it's available in a 40s style cartoon edition. The first page says it was "Originally published in Look magazine, Reproduced from a booklet published by General Motors, Detroit in the 'Thought Starter' series (no. 118)."
And there's archive.org for anyone who needs the captions read aloud by a computer generated voice. Watch and listen.
Don't know whether the copyright on the illustrations is still valid, but since Hayek himself may have opposed copyright laws, the illustrations are reproduced below. [Isn't that collectivist thinkng? -- ed.] Never mind, just enjoy the illustrations.
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