I want to recommend to everyone a famous book about how socialism leads to mass murder by government. The book is written by Nobel prize winner F. A. Hayek. This is one of my favorite books on economics. The full PDF of the book is available for download on archive.org.

The audio version is available FOR FREE on YouTube:

Outline:

• 00:17 Foreword
• 37:58 Preface
• 41:51 Preface 1976
• 50:09 Introduction
• 1:08:46 Ch1 The Abandoned Road
• 1:37:31 Ch2 The Great Utopia
• 1:54:46 Ch3 Individualism and Collectivism
• 2:18:32 Ch4 The Inevitability of Planning
• 2:45:52 Ch5 Planning and Democracy
• 3:20:06 Ch6 Planning and the Rule of Law
• 3:54:33 Ch7 Economic Control and Totalitarianism
• 4:23:01 Ch8 Who, Whom
• 5:00:49 Ch9 Security and Freedom
• 5:31:27 Ch10 Why the Worst Get On Top
• 6:11:01 Ch11 The End of Truth
• 6:38:41 Ch12 The Socialist Roots of Nazism
• 7:09:40 Ch13 The Totalitarians in Our Midst
• 7:54:43 Ch14 Material Conditions and Ideal Ends
• 8:33:17 Ch15 The Prospects of International Order
• 9:14:55 Ch16 Conclusion

All you need is 8.5 hours to listen to it. You won’t regret it, I promise. I have listened to the audiobook at least a dozen times. If that’s too long, there is a condensed version of the book.

They Hayek Center talks about condensed version of the book:

Max Eastman and the editors of Reader’s Digest wrote the condensed version of Friedrich Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom” (pdf), which was read by millions of Americans at home and by servicemen all of the world when it was published in April of 1945.  It was the Reader’s Digest condensed version which turned Hayek’s little book into an American sensation — and Hayek into a public celebrity.  The Reader’s Digest had a circulation at the time of more the 5 million copies, and the little journal was provided to each American serviceman, at home and abroad.

[…]An additional 600,000 copies of the condensed version were later printed and distributed through the Book of the Month club and by non-profit civic groups.

Can you imagine what it would have been like to live at a time where everyone clearly understood the danger of letting government administrators centrally plan an economy? But the new generation of young Americans have lost that knowledge, and they are voting for the people who will lead them down the road to serfdom.