"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
Woodcock on Proudhon and "Industrial Gigantism"
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2011-05-20 00:00
In the introduction to his celebrated biography of Proudhon, George Woodcock remarks upon some of the pitfalls of largeness and capital accumulation that have become so pronounced in the world today. That so many today should be so sure that hierarchy and rigidity develop naturally from a free markets is evidence of how deeply free markets are misunderstood.
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