May 09 2008
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“ The real world of capitalism is one in which capitalists demand state intervention on their behalf while opposing government intervention on behalf on their employees or the poor. In a broader sense, the state is the guarantor of the capitalist system, providing the framework of laws and protections it needs to exist. Taxpayers fund the state, thereby ensuring capitalism’s viability. Capitalism cannot exist without a host state, just as corporations cannot exist without property laws, state charters, copyright and patent protections, and a host of other government ‘interventions.’
— Brian Oliver Sheppard, The Inefficiency of Capitalism: An Anarchist View