I’ve been impressed with some of the points made by Kevin Carson (no relation) and other “free-market anticapitalists”. Certainly it can hardly be stressed enough that the free market is a very different thing than the corporatist system of “government/business cooperation” that characterizes many aspects of our current system, (witness the desperate gov’t maneuvers to save Wall Street from itself). But BK Marcus very correctly draws a line when it comes to the term “capitalism” itself in this great post: The free-market anticapitalists define capitalism as any system of political privilege for current capitalists, especially as it suppresses bottom-up competition, … Continue reading I’ll Stick With “Capitalism”