The People's Line

The People's Line

Capitalists have no coherent critique of militarization

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Carl Beijer
Aug 18, 2014
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Capitalism usually demands the rhetorical luxury of absolute opposition to the government. Since the market can optimally ameliorate virtually every social ill imaginable, political progress is simply a matter of opposing government intervention. According to this logic, big government is bad, smaller government is better, and no government is best. Ins…

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