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There Are Markets Extending From Mali, Indonesia, Way Outside The Purview Of Any One Government Which Operated Under Civil Laws, So Contracts Weren't, Except On Trust. So They Have This Free Market Ideology The Moment They Have Markets Operating Outside The Purview Of The States, As Prior To That Markets Had Really Mainly Existed As A Side Effect Of Military Operations.

But In The Years Since The Neoliberal Project Really Has Been Stripped Down To What Was Always Its Essence: Not An Economic Project At All, But A Political Project, Designed To Devastate The Imagination, And Willing - With It's Cumbersome Securitization And Insane Military Projects - To Destroy The Capitalist Order Itself If That's What It Took To Make It Seem Inevitable.

I Would Like, Then, To End By Putting In A Good Word For The Non-industrious Poor. At Least They Aren’t Hurting Anyone. Insofar As The Time They Are Taking Time Off From Work Is Being Spent With Friends And Family, Enjoying And Caring For Those They Love, They’re Probably Improving The World More Than We Acknowledge.

The Difference Between Capitalism And Feudalism Is That Under Capitalism, They Make Money Directly Through Wages, Manufacturing, And Commerce And Under Feudalism, It's Directly Through Juro-political Means.

Now, We're Used To Thinking Of Communism As Being Once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, Maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And People Agree That There Is A Sort Of Epic Narrative Going On Here. I Think We Should Just Throw This Narrative Out, It's Irrelevant Anyway, And Who Cares Who Owns Things? I Don't. You Know, We All Own The White House. So What? I Still Can't Go In, Right?