Sunday, April 24, 2011

Limits(Capital and Human Freedom)







Neo-Liberalism champions free markets and individual choice as the greatest, unlimited, expression of human freedom. In doing so it formalizes liberty as a factitious realm of magical choice which does away with real conditions.(cf. Marx on Primitive Accumulation) It's strange the market has never been as rigged and backed by public funds at a time when it is stated as most free. As individuals are punished by economic choices and lose rights, market entities licensed and guaranteed by the state are rewarded despite making even poorer choices. Individual liberty has all the responsibility for every choice made and therein finds real limits. Market sanctioned liberty is unlimited because Capital cannot be punished. When it dominates Freedom becomes a limited exchange where only capital, not humans, participates. Ultimately the masters of capital become the most servile in this boundless liberty. "Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit"

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