{"id":7396,"date":"2009-03-20T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2009-03-20T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:10:25","slug":"kevin-carson-enemies-of-what-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7396","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Carson: Enemies of What State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society, <a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/211\">19 March 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are all too many people in American politics whose real concern, concealed behind all the \u201cfree market\u201d rhetoric, is not so much \u201cstatism\u201d per se as statism that benefits the wrong  class of people.  A good example:  it was quite amusing to hear some Republicans, during yesterday\u2019s Congressional hearings on the AIG bonuses, wringing their hands over the prospect of \u201cinterfering with the management of private business\u201d and \u201caltering the terms of contracts.\u201d  Last night Rachel Maddow ran clips of some of the very same people, last December, crowing about how they were forcing the UAW to renegotiate its contract and accept lower wages in return for bailout loans to the auto industry.<\/p>\n<p>Another example:  I don\u2019t advocate Social Credit or greenbackism, but I don\u2019t understand the reasoning of those who object to either as an increase in statism over the present system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/211\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society, 19 March 2009 There are all too many people in American politics whose real concern, concealed behind all the \u201cfree market\u201d rhetoric, is not so much \u201cstatism\u201d per se as statism that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1Vi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7408,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions\/7408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}