Outlook for Freedom

Written in 1951, this is one of Leonard Read’s earliest pamphlets on what he called “the philosophy of freedom.”

As was often the case in Read’s essays on spreading the message of liberty, Read notes that the first step is evaluating one’s own thinking.

Communism and socialism, Read contends, are not ideologies that exist somewhere out there among foreigners and shady agents of conspiracy. In America, the ideas of communism and socialism are alive and well among the supporters of public schoo...