The Fortists' Misperception of Reality

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Postmoderns think about a world where things can be done on demand and provided without the need for big state apparatus. They see themselves as either before or after feudalism, pre-feudal era of human production. But they are great believers in sort of the diversity of political possibility - if you want to crack up the United States into 10,000 miniature units,. Some of those units will be radically redistributive; others might be black supremacists.

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Radical libertarians, including anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard, envision a world of micro-polities governed by private property and contract. In fact, we already live in their world, a world of zones—places where special rules tailor-made for capitalists prevail over the ordinary laws of the nation-state. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Listen to Quinn's interview on Globalists thedigradio.com/podcast/a-history-of-neoliberalism-with-quinn-slobodian Buy Angela Davis: An Autobiography haymarketbooks.org/books/2001-angela-davis Buy Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you