This brilliant economist tells it like it is, and he sounds astonishingly like a flaming revolutionary! There are many insightful gems in this article, but I recommend skimming the article halfway down the first page to the paragraph entitled, "The crisis is government". From there to the end on page two is required reading. You will be tested on this material! (joke) Here are a sampling of the gems awaiting you:
When the gullable weak are convinced by the devious strong in society that government is the problem, not the solution, the weak are inadvertently trapped into a political climate that permits the destruction of their only institutional protector, since the existential function of government, regardless of political and economic color, is to protect the weak from the strong.
Government non-interference through deregulation and privatization of the public sector leads to the law of the jungle in free markets under which the economic function of the financially weak is to serve as the food supply for the financially strong. Historically, government evolves in civilization so that the weak masses can collectively resist the oppression of the strong elite. This is the reason why the strong in society always bash popular government.
