Friday, March 10, 2017

Chomsky and Chapman On The Nature of Optimum Capitalism

Dr. Chomsky:

An anarchocapitalist society is a capitalist society, and therefore not only incorporates, but magnifies, the inherent injustices and destructive tendencies of capitalism, hence is radically anti-libertarian.

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Chapman:

My understanding is that without the state, the corporation cannot exist.  The corporation is the state sanctioned monopoly that allows the extraordinary concentration of capital and the resulting violence placed upon the worker via that monopoly.  

The stateless competitive capitalism I envision is a man with a hot dog stand, not a corporate control (state sanctioned monopoly) system to exploit him within that state sanctioned structure.  

My interest in stateless competitive capitalism is in providing property for the individual.  Without property to stand upon, sleep upon, raise a family upon, he is a nomad swept across the landscape by the whim of the true owner.  Property taxes, for example, make us nomadic to whatever the extent the state wishes.  The state, under the Marxist-Malthusian assumptions, wish us nomadic to hold down our population potential for carbon footprint control purposes or to build David Ricardo's "wage floor," depending upon which narrative you wish to follow.  

Dr. Friedman tells us that optimum human civilization/ maximum care for the maximum number of humans comes from the free market/ freer market.  The freer the better.  Free market Hong Kong had a per capita income 1/3 rd below that of Socialist Great Britain in 1960 and 1/3 rd above Great Britain by 1995, Friedman tells us.   


Gene

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