Connor Kilpatrick · @ckilpatrick
18th Feb 2014 from TwitLonger
Let this Gramsci quote be a chaser to @MattBruenig's new article (& @JAMyerson's trolling) on libertarian myths about "private" vs. state: "The ideas of the Free Trade movement are based on a theoretical error, whose practical origin is not hard to identify; they are based on a distinction between political society and civil society, which is rendered and presented as an organic one, whereas in fact it is merely methodological. Thus it is asserted that economic activity belongs to civil society, and that the State must not intervene to regulate it. But since in actual reality civil society and State are one and the same, it must be made clear that laissez-faire too is a form of State 'regulation', introduced and maintained by legislative and coercive means." - Antonio Gramsci