"Free Trade can only be imposed by a strong, authoritarian state"

Odin2005

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Fri Mar-19-10 04:40 PM
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"Free Trade can only be imposed by a strong, authoritarian state"

This is an interesting tidbit I read in a book I'm reading, "Civilization: A New History of the Western World" in the context of Victorian Britain. The author states that controlled and regulated markets are the norm, part of the rules of pre-modern societies.

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Warpy

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Fri Mar-19-10 05:07 PM
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1. That sounds like a tacit admission of the inexorable march

of unregulated capitalism to monopoly, wealth concentration, and the enslavement of the masses through debt, something that can be enforced only by totalitarianism.

Even then, it's only temporary. We slaves are an ornery lot and once in a very great while we realize there are more of us than there are of them and we overthrow them.

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upi402

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Sat Mar-20-10 02:12 AM
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2. In other words,

We surround them?
:fistbump:
But when the media has so many slaves deluded, who ya gonna call?

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