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"The cry for an economic dictator is a characteristic stage in the movement toward planning. Thus the legislative body will be reduced to choosing the persons who are to have practically absolute power. The whole system will tend toward that kind of dictatorship in which the head of the government is in position by popular vote, but where he has all the powers at his command to make certain that the vote will go in the direction he desires."  - Hayek, The Road to Serfdom