The Rise and Fall of the Global Capitalists

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The story of the past half centuries often told as agglomeration of nation states into larger supranational bodies. But this book shows that we've also lived through this breakdown of nationStates into zones, he says. Radical capitalist are obsessed not just with deregulating the state or imposing a global check on democracy, but in breaking states up into smaller and smaller polities, micro-ordering.

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