Tuesday, June 11, 2013

A tale of two useful idiots …

… Center for a Stateless Society — The Myth of 19th-Century Laissez-Faire: Who Benefits Today?  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The myth of 19th-century laissez-faire is useful to statists on both the left and the right. As contemporary market anarchist Kevin Carson observes, “advocates of the regulatory-welfare state must pretend that the injustices of the capitalist economy result from the unbridled market, rather than from state intervention in the market,” since otherwise “they could not justify their own power as a remedy.” And by the same token, “apologists of big business” need to “pretend that the regulatory-welfare state was something forced on them by anti-business ideologues, rather than something they themselves played a central role in creating.”

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