I Think We Need To Think Of

States Created Markets. Markets Require States. Neither Could Continue Without The Other, At Least, In Anything Like The Forms We Would Recognize Today.

You Can't Have Cutthroat Competition When There's No One Stopping You From Actually Cutting Each Other's Throats. In Order To Build Up Trust We Also Have To Think About Each Other's Needs And It Creates An Entirely Different Dynamic.

The Example Of Russia Reminds Us That Keeping Up That Enormous Dead Weight Of The Security Apparatus Required To Enforce The Ideological Conformity To Preempt Anything That Looks Like An Alternative Or A Social Movement Is Destroying Capitalism.

[a] Great Embarrassing Fact… Haunts All Attempts To Represent The Market As The Highest Form Of Human Freedom: That Historically, Impersonal, Commercial Markets Originate In Theft.

Capitalism Is Like This Fractal Thing Where Anything That Contains An Element Of Capitalism Anywhere Inside It Is Just Something That Turns Into Capitalism. It Is An Incredibly Defeatist Attitude. If You Choose To Look At Reality That Way, I Suppose You Can, But You Have To Do Enormous Violence To Reality To Do So Consistently.