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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.

There Are Markets Extending From Mali, Indonesia, Way Outside The Purview Of Any One Government Which Operated Under Civil Laws, So Contracts Weren't, Except On Trust. So They Have This Free Market Ideology The Moment They Have Markets Operating Outside The Purview Of The States, As Prior To That Markets Had Really Mainly Existed As A Side Effect Of Military Operations.

Neoliberalism Isn't An Economic Program - It's A Political Program Designed To Produce Hopelessness And Kill Any Future Alternatives.

The Notion That A Society Could Be Regulated Entirely By Market Forces Is A Utopian Fantasy: An Impossible Dream Generated By Imagining What The World Would Be Like If Everyone's Behavior Was Utterly Consistent With Some Abstract Moral Ideal-in This Case, Economic Theories That Assume All Human Action Is Based On Calculating, Systematic, (but Scrupulously Law-abiding), Greed.

It Affects Every Aspect Of Our Lives, Is Often Said To Be The Root Of All Evil, And The Analysis Of The World That It Makes Possible - What We Call 'the Economy' - Is So Important To Us That Economists Have Become The High Priests Of Our Society. Yet, Oddly, There Is Absolutely No Consensus Among Economists About What Money Really Is.