Max B. Sawicky writes
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>In Hayek the road to serfdom is central planning,
>not the state per se. I believe he favored social
>insurance, for instance.
>
True, but in the 1976 preface to Road to Serfdom Hayek says that the welfare state and redistribution of wealth leads to the same outcome as planning, except more slowly and indirectly.
Jacob Segal