America’s Form Of Capitalism Kills Free Enterprise And Democracy

[egbertowillies]

http://www.occupy.com/article/america%E2%80%99s-form-capitalism-kills-free-enterprise-and-democracy

[polichick]

1. America's form of capitalism is just a big excuse to...

squeeze every last dollar and resource from this nation and the world.


Edit: typo

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. I haven't read the article ...

... but I've long stressed this. A free and fair market is incompatible with capitalism, and is more suited to libertarian socialism, more specifically, the Mutualist and Syndicalist strands of anarchism.

Kevin Carson has a website with many articles and essays (some quite interesting) on his adaptation of Mutualism, which was built upon Pierre-Joseph Prodhoun's version of Mutualism.

I will say, however, that Carson tends to fuse some right-wing elements of Rothbardian and Mises schools with Marxist and socialist schools. Some of these positions I don't agree with. His essays are very interesting reads, though, regardless of position. They really do make you think.

A couple of essays worth the read are:

Austrian and Marxist Theories of Monopoly Capital: A Mutualist Synthesis

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand (Capitalism vs. Free Enterprise)

Notes on Organization Theory: An Individualist Anarchist Perspective

Which includes the following chapters:

Chapter One. A Critical Survey of Orthodox Views of Economy of Scale

Chapter Two. Empirical Evidence on Economy of Scale

Chapter Three. State Policies Promoting Excessive Corporate Size and Centralization

Chapter Four. Systemic Effects of State-Induced Economic Centralization and Large Organizational Size

Chapter Five: Knowledge and Information Problems in the Large Organization

Chapter Six: Agency and Incentive Problems in the Large Organization

Chapter Seven. Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth (the corporation as planned economy)

Chapter Eight. Managerialism: Irrationality and Authoritarianism in the large organization

Chapter Nine. Special Agency Problems of Labor (Internal Crisis Tendencies of the Large Organization)

Chapter Ten: Attempts at Reform from Within

Chapter Eleven: The Abolition of Privilege

Chapter Twelve--The Cost Principle

Chapter Thirteen: The Dissolution of the State in Society

Chapter Fourteen--Decentralized Production Technology

Chapter Fifteen--The Social Organization of Production: Cooperatives and Peer Production

Chapter Sixteen--The Social Organization of Distribution, Exchange and Services

Very fascinating stuff.

[Sunlei]

3. a good article, good read. what could the solution be in the usa?

Imo, the solution that would empower the local individual the most?

I think removing all barriers to local self employment would be a huge help.

Keep the State and Federal health and safety laws, remove all local barriers.

Local small businesses used to be the backbone of America. In todays world, it's the mega corps who get all the Gov. 'free money', all the bail outs, all the state tax breaks, land deals.