For well over a decade I have stressed at LRC the importance of power elite analysis. An understanding of power elite analysis is the “litmus test” separating real libertarians from alternative lifestyle dilettantes dabbling in free market theory. Sometimes labeled “libertarian class theory” or “Establishment Studies,” this examination of causal relationships regarding the nature and scope of political power, who has it and how it is exercised, is crucial to understanding the nexus between the public state, the deep state, and organized crime. There is a striking similarity between this analysis and what researcher Peter Dale Scott calls “Deep Politics,” … Continue reading Behind The Curtain