Tag: corporate state
David D’Amato on social justice in China and everywhere.
Kevin Carson dissects Nicholas Kristoff’s argument for the US military as a socialist utopia.
Kevin Carson puts Steven Cohen in his place.
Kevin Carson discusses the supposed “anti-business” attitude of the Obama administration.
David D’Amato on US military intervention in Libya.
David D’Amato on the role of war in the state’s system of control.
Kevin Carson discusses the role of state policy in subsidizing nuclear power.
Thomas L. Knapp on the “essential” versus the “non-essential”.
Kevin Carson explains why the “progressive” regulatory state is not an obstacle to monopoly, but its greatest enabler.
Kevin Carson on Krugman and Keynesianism.
Kevin Carson: “…if you call yourself a libertarian, don’t try to kid anybody that the American system is less statist than the German one just because more of the welfare queens wear three-piece suits.”
Kevin Carson tackles the fanciful notion of file sharing being a cash cow for Al Qaeda.
Darian Worden: What is an essential government service anyway?
Kevin Carson: “It’s been argued by more than one person that Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley, in part, because Coakley was such a lame and unappealing candidate. But there’s one point that hasn’t received much attention: her cynical role, as a district attorney, in preventing the release of a man who was almost certainly innocent of the crime he’d been convicted of.”
Kevin Carson: “The politics of Empire and the National Security State were not an unfortunate deviation of the Bush years, and by no means something peculiar to conservative Republicans. The roots of American Empire go way back to the early 20th century.”
Kevin Carson examines the matter of whether or not the word “capitalism” is useful to describe a true free market economy.
Kevin Carson points out that we’re already in Wilson’s dystopia.
In his latest study, C4SS Reseach Associate Kevin Carson shows that the current economic crisis is not a cyclical downturn but a permanent structural shift…
The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once: (1) Ensuring that everyone can afford to buy ample medical services and (2) lowering the price of care while (3) not interfering with our choices. An Unnecessary Tension among Health Care Goals—Created by…
In this study, Kevin Carson asserts that the existing capitalist economic system is a result of State industrial policy suppressing libertarian alternatives.
