It depends, writes Kevin Carson.
Knapp: The free market at work? Nice try.
Carson: The subsidy teat is running dry.
Carson: No, that moisture running down your back isn’t rain.
Carson: Meathead versus reality.
D’Amato: In banking, it’s dog eat dog (and the reverse).
Carson: Occupy can’t be coopted, because it already belongs to anyone who wants to use it.
Knapp: It doesn’t have to be this way.
D’Amato: “Competition” today is no more than a clash between rich, monolithic global corporate titans who would rather use the legal system to ban competitors than actually compete.
Kevin Carson: “Today, in the dying days of monopoly capitalism, the state’s role in surplus extraction is specifically to protect the rentier classes against competition from the technologies of abundance.”
Carson: They’re doing it to Julia.
Kevin Carson: Words mean things.
Knapp: Apparently “austerity” is French for “the productive class takes it in the shorts … again.”
Carson: The mask is coming off.
D’Amato on Krugman’s blind spot.
Carson v. Sanders and Somin.
Carson: Modern labor practices are mere Wagnerian opera.
D’Amato: Occupy is labor’s future, if it has one.
D’Amato: Workers of the world, unite!
Knapp: I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. Manning.
