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1 year ago
Care to weigh in on the new found suppression of views at TLF?
“…Obviously this would entail a government mandate to an industry, which we’re all biased against.”
But then why post this on a libertarian website? Because Jerry’s just come across one of the decisive contradictions of our time: A self-regulating market which corporate power advocates seek to impose upon society, requires state intervention. More specifically, democratic structures strongly mitigate against the type of a self-regulating market that corporate power structures would like to see built. This is the decisive conflict of our time. See Karl Polanyi in The Great Transformation:
“Strictly economic liberalism is the organizing principle of a society in which industry is based on the institution of the self-regulating market…For as long as such a system is not established economic liberals will call for the intervention of the state in order to establish it, and once established, in order to maintain it.” (page 149)