'Written by Roderick Long Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/14475 Excerpt: \"But it is an all-too-common mistake – and this tendency to underestimate the chasm between free markets and corporatism is enormously beneficial to the state, enabling a slick bait-and-switch. When free markets and government grants of privilege to business are conflated, those who are attracted to free markets are easily duped into supporting plutocracy, thus swelling the ranks of statism’s right wing – while those who are turned off by plutocracy are likewise easily duped into opposing free markets, thereby swelling the ranks of statism’s left wing. (These are the two tendencies that Kevin Carson calls “vulgar libertarianism” and “vulgar liberalism,” respectively.) As one of the villains in The Fountainhead explains in a moment of frankness, talking about the choice Europe was then facing between communism and fascism: “If you’re sick of one version, we push you in the other. We’ve fixed the coin. Heads – collectivism. Tails – collectivism. Give up your soul to a council – or give it up to a leader. But give it up, give it up, give it up. Offer poison as food and poison as antidote. Go fancy on the trimmings, but hang on to the main objective.\"\' You can help support C4SS on Patreon (patreon.com/c4ssdotorg).'
Tags: health (industry) , Rodeirck Long , C4SS , The Art of the Possible - Recovered , Ayn Rand (Author) , The Fountainhead (Book) , Count Dooku (Fictional Character) , Palpatine (Film Character) , mutual-insurance systems , Free Market (Literature Subject) , Kevin Carson , Vulgar libertarianism , American Medical Association (Organization)
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