http://aaeblog.com/2009/04/07/democrats-for-plutocrats/ "Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://aaeblog.com/2009/04/07/democrats-for-plutocrats/comment-page-1/#comment-349804 Attack the System » Blog Archive » Updated News Digest April 12, 2009 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:06:49 +0000 http://aaeblog.com/?p=2200#comment-349804 [...] Democrats for Plutocrats by Roderick Long [...] [...] Democrats for Plutocrats by Roderick Long [...]

]]> http://aaeblog.com/2009/04/07/democrats-for-plutocrats/comment-page-1/#comment-349781 ed Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:35:03 +0000 http://aaeblog.com/?p=2200#comment-349781 Josh Bolton is right this time. The theoretical "Free Market" would be and in fact is more important than corporations! Unfortunately, we have a "free market" in theory and not in actuality. Corporations themselves prevent "free market" existance in pursuit of their own priorities such as power and money, as one begets the other. Hence, we have monopolies, eventually oligarchies. "Free Enterprise", in its purest form cannot cannot exist as long as the human element is involved. Josh Bolton is right this time. The theoretical “Free Market” would be and in fact is more important than corporations! Unfortunately, we have a “free market” in theory and not in actuality. Corporations themselves prevent “free market” existance in pursuit of their own priorities such as power and money, as one begets the other. Hence, we have monopolies, eventually oligarchies. “Free Enterprise”, in its purest form cannot cannot exist as long as the human element is involved.

]]> http://aaeblog.com/2009/04/07/democrats-for-plutocrats/comment-page-1/#comment-349745 Anon73 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:26:07 +0000 http://aaeblog.com/?p=2200#comment-349745 We've heard the "conservatives support business" and "liberals hate business" rhetoric for so long it's difficult to believe anybody in the mainstream press would contradict it. Just yesterday I heard John Bolton on Fox News talking about how the free market is more important than corporations. We’ve heard the “conservatives support business” and “liberals hate business” rhetoric for so long it’s difficult to believe anybody in the mainstream press would contradict it. Just yesterday I heard John Bolton on Fox News talking about how the free market is more important than corporations.

]]>