Comments on: Free Market Reforms and the Reduction of Statism

By: Reason’s Sheldon Reichman: US income mobility is lower than Europe’s because they’re more capitalist than us. « libertopian

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:14:24 +0000

[...] corporatism in which government power primarily benefits the well-connected and well-to-do, with secondary interventions intended in part to ameliorate some of the harsher consequences of the primary [...]

By: The Mobility Gap: What Does It Mean? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

The Mobility Gap: What Does It Mean? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:02:55 +0000

[...] of corporatism in which government power primarily benefits the well-connected and well-to-do, with secondary interventions intended in part to ameliorate some of the harsher consequences of the primary interventions. As I wrote on another occasion:In [...]

By: A Political Paradox « Welcome to 1984

A Political Paradox « Welcome to 1984 — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:16:05 +0000

[...] falls and less policies get “sold”. This seems to back up left-libertarian claims that not all nominal reductions in government are actually beneficial, not when the system is looked at as a [...]

By: “Es complicado”, o la relación del anarquismo de mercado con los impuestos | El Blog de Alan Furth

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:50:19 +0000

[...] causa fundamental del caracazo y legitimó el intento de golpe de estado perpetrado por Chávez. En palabras de Kevin Carson: Las prioridades estratégicas de los libertarios de principio deberían ser [...]

By: “It’s complicated,” or the relationship of market anarchism with taxes | The Alan Furth blog

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:25:16 +0000

[...] sparked the Caracazo and legitimized Chavez’s attempt to overthrow him. In Carson’s own words: The strategic priorities of principled libertarians should be just the opposite: first to [...]

By: A Left Libertarian Manifesto.

A Left Libertarian Manifesto. — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:21:35 +0000

[...] Kinds of Government intervention. As Kevin Carson says there’s two kinds of government intervention.Primary which are privileges such as [...]

By: sovereignthink

sovereignthink — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:17:08 +0000

The Great Shell Game of America
The basic theme of Orthodox Historiography or at least the storyline we were all taught in school and of almost all historians has been;
‘The rise of federal state regulation and the progressive period basically came about because in the late 19th century we had the massive rise of big business. This large scale industry became uncontrollably ‘monopolistic’ and overbearing within the free market.
And…
Due to the overbearing evils of monopolistic industry that were perceived by a rising group of workers, farmers and reform intellectuals, this groups organized, regulated and corrected these evils during the measure of the great progressive period, the new freedom, the fair deal, the new deal, the new era, the new society, the great society, the new nationalism, etc.
These are needed programs that arose to fight the evils of and to reform big business monopoly that could only have been accomplish due to the imbalance of freedom in the market’
However…
The true story of what happened is almost exactly the opposite. Big Business did not lose, they did not give up, they did not ‘pull a Grinch’ and ‘have a heart grow three sizes that day’, They WON.
What actually occurred with the rise of big business and large scale industry was a truly progressive (in the small p sense), increase in industrial output/invention, standard of living and productivity in the highly competitive free market.
Many big business interests would have liked to achieve market control through cartels, monopolies and trusts in the free market and many of these cartels were attempted across the nation; however they almost all failed and quite miserably because of rapid winds of competition in the freemarket. (This is demonstrated excellently in Rothbard’s lectures: links below)
Various Big Businesses, having seen that these attempts were complete failures, turned to the state apparatus to do the cartelization for them, to create the monopolies that they could not achieve in the free market.
This is the simplified but correct historical interpretation of the Progressive Movement, The New Nationalism, The New Socialism, etc. of the Progressive Period.
http://sovereignthink.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/the-great-shell-game-of-america/
Roger Rabbit’s ToonTown A Corporatoon’s Story in the Defence of the Public Domain
The Wizard of Oz is to unrestricted Interest Free government Bi-Metalism, 1789 => Gold Standard, 1900 => Fiat Debt/Interest Based Land of Balloonist/Inflationist Make-Believe Standard, 1913.
As
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is to Corporation Personhood, 1895 => Corporate Charter Mongering, 1920 => Total Corporate Autonomy, Consolidation and Ownership/Partnership of the Public Domain by National-ess Corporate Statism, 1945.
Judge Doom Dipped the Public Domain. The ToonTown Merry Go Round Broke Down and Dorothy Never Clicked Her Silver Slippers.
http://sovereignthink.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/oz-vs-toontown-genius-all-around/
End of the US Century with over 70% dominance in the entire world’s Currency. The World Reserve Currency will no longer be in Bankcorupt US Dollars.
http://sovereignthink.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/end-of-the-dollar-world-domiance/

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:43:32 +0000

I think Joseph Stromberg now uses the term “corporate libertarians” to refer to free traders of the type you identify