Is capitalism statist?
Jan. 15th, 2014 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzribeirohttp://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/27/crony-capitalism-and-corporatism/
Intriguing article by a prominent anarchist and proponent for a classless society. He argues that history has provided vast amounts of empirical evidence for capitalism being inherently statist in nature. I hesitate to put him in the same league with right-libertarianism, as I've noticed those tend to argue that corporatism, or "crony capitalism", is a sort of distortion of capitalism, i.e. an impure form thereof.
An inquiry...
Intriguing article by a prominent anarchist and proponent for a classless society. He argues that history has provided vast amounts of empirical evidence for capitalism being inherently statist in nature. I hesitate to put him in the same league with right-libertarianism, as I've noticed those tend to argue that corporatism, or "crony capitalism", is a sort of distortion of capitalism, i.e. an impure form thereof.
An inquiry...
