serfdom

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Ms. Bellows is the author of “American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

But just 15 years later, the same advocates became obsessed with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, advocating free-market capitalism to combat the rise of totalitarianism.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022

Serfdom, relatively secure but contingent on the generosity of the families, is the middle class of the Lazarus universe.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2017

The Road to Serfdom became the path to power.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2016

Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription?

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White