Bill C-2

Q: One of the most effective (if not the most effective) promise of socialist propaganda is what? Who was most attracted to this promise and why?

A: "There can be no doubt that the promise of greater freedom has become one of the most effective weapons of socialist propaganda and that the belief that socialism would bring freedom is genuine and sincere."
"Unquestionably, the promise of more freedom was responsible for luring more and more liberals along the socialist road, for blinding them to the conflict which exists between the basic priciples of socialism and liberalism, and often for enabling socialists to usurp the very name of the old party of freedom. Socialism was embraced by the greater part of the intelligentsia as the apparent heir of the liberal tradition." (Hayek 31)