Carson: A free market … will eliminate — or socialize — the majority of exchange value in the economy and drive the average rate of profit much closer to zero.
Knapp: The hype has gotten so outrageous that it’s frankly becoming a huge tiresome bore.
Carson: The common thread running through the left-libertarian response is that most of the evils currently remedied by the state result from state intervention in the first place.
Carson: With all the resources wasted on trying to influence a rigged system we could far more easily build the kind of society we want, here and now, without waiting to elect a government to give us permission.
Carson: So long as power and hierarchy exist, they will be used by those at the top to live off the sweat and blood of those at the bottom.
Knapp: Apple used to be an innovative company. Now it’s just a protection racket.
Knapp: The R3VOLution is dead. Long live the revolution.
Carson: They’re trying to enclose emerging tech!
Carson: If we break it down and translate it a bit at a time, we can actually distill some sense from it.
It can be easy to dismiss or mock Akin as “just another misogynist Republican”, but it is more productive to approach this with the intent of opening a frank discussion about patriarchy and oppression.
Knapp: Zenawi was heir to, not smasher of, Mengistu and Selassie regimes.
Kevin Carson: It’s like Brazil (the movie, not the country).
Carson: The US government arguably has a conscious interest in promoting authoritarianism abroad.
Knapp: In Manchester on Monday, not even one righteous juror was to be found.
Knapp: If Paul Ryan is a “libertarian,” so was Leonid Brezhnev.
Carson: It’s not what the ruling class wants, of course. But it’s exactly what we want.
Kevin Carson: The system’s rules are set up to favor the interests of those inside the corporate-state power structure, against those on the outside proposing fundamental change.
Goodman: A state that commits torture on a mass scale is a far more heinous criminal.
Thomas L. Knapp: I’ll miss Gore Vidal. And I’ll remain thankful that so many of his insights are immortalized in print.
Carson: And the Oscar goes to the Capitalist with a straight face.
