"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Benevolent State Fantasy
Submitted by Government Deni... on Mon, 2015-05-11 00:00
"Progressives and state socialists like Aschoff arraign market libertarians for ignoring the empirical facts of global capitalist markets while they exhibit what seems a willful ignorance of historical states, ascribing to the state the qualities of a celestial guardian. When did the state become the great protector of the poor and working classes rather than the mechanism of ruling class conquest, plunder, and control?"
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