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>>Part of the problem with the critique of Hayek's RtS is that, when we talk about 'totalitarianism' or 'dictatorship' people tend to have too concrete an image of what that means. They immediately think about military uniforms ` la fascism or, still worse, concentration camps ` la Gulag.<<

Yep. That's what "totalitarianism" means.

>>But one cannot reduce the question to this kind of folklore.<<

In other words, when Hayek uses the word "totalitarianism" he doesn't mean it? He's just calling names?

>>The essence is that the mixed economy leads to a severe loss of personal freedom and one must be blind not to see this.<<

I live in a mixed economy. I don't see that I have suffered a severe loss of personal freedom. What freedoms have I lost, exactly?

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