tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719658.post112291408949154869..comments2023-10-10T08:49:42.595-07:00Comments on This is not a compliment.: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: July 31, 2005 - August 06, 2005 ArchivesKid Orneryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08406478158975524405noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719658.post-1122928893511419542005-08-01T13:41:00.000-07:002005-08-01T13:41:00.000-07:00You can easily take this one step further. There ...You can easily take this one step further. There is no such thing as the "free market." It is an artificial construct which only exists because of massive state intervention going way beyond what Milton Freidman and his neo-liberal apostles say it should. The violent coercion of labor about which Marshall writes is but one example. Another is how the billions of tax dollars annually pumped into the the military-industrial complex essentially serve as a crutch, an old fashioned Keynesian stimulus, to bolster American capitalism as a whole, which cannot survive on its own. Capitalism is just one big lie after another: it simply doesn't work the way they insist it does. There hasn't been an honest mainstream discussion of economics in this country in thirty years.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13926407749563737116noreply@blogger.com