ponderings

Free Market Rhetoric

October 29, 2011
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Capitalism isn't working

It's not sufficient to just take away those things that interfere with a free market if you intend to leave in place all of the benefits (and handicaps) accrued under the old system of exploitation. And if you don't do anything to remedy the "too big to fail", or to remedy the "captured regulators" or the "lobbyists", etc., you've created a free market in name only.

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Ownership & the Use of Force

September 3, 2011
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barbed-wire

This follows from the left-Anarchist position that "ownership" is wrong per se because it implies absolute control, which implies (and justifies) hierarchy/power imbalances. Since the consequences are undesirable, one ought also oppose the concepts of "ownership" and "property" which are inseparable.

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The American Dream (TM)

January 31, 2011
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The American Dream (TM)

White picket fences and matching flatware, brand new cars every three years, clever coffee tables, two cell phones per person all supported by a nine-to-five which atrophies your brain and body, simultaneously. Cookie-cutter mass-produced and marketed to be everything they've conditioned you to think that you want. This is The American Dream™

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