For years, we’ve been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend “libertarian” classics like Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom that claim markets free us, and this picture still dominates the schools and the political spectrum. Well get bent, one percent, because Rob Larson’s Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom puts big business under a microscope. This book debunks the conservative classics while demonstrating that the marketplace has its own great centers of power, which the libertarian tradition itself claims is a limit to freedom. In fact, Larson illustrates how capitalism fails both this and other concepts of human liberty, not just failing to establish a right to a share of society’s production, but also leaving us subject to the great power plays of the one percent’s corporate property.
Rob Larson is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community College in Washington State and the author of Bleakonomics. He's written broadly, including for In These Times, Dollars & Sense and Jacobin, and appeared on Alternative Radio and other programs.
Author(s): Rob Larson
Publisher: Zero Books
Year: 2018
Language: English
Commentary: PDF Conv From .epub
Pages: 232
Tags: Capitalism, Freddom, Serfdom
What people are saying about Capitalism vs. Freedom......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Introduction: What is Freedom?......Page 9
1: Classes and Crashes – Freedom of Work......Page 16
Atlas Hugged......Page 19
The Fun Percent......Page 24
To the Bigger Go the Spoils......Page 33
Labor’s Loves Lost......Page 45
No Man is an Island, But He Can Buy One......Page 54
Ups and Downs and Downs......Page 60
2: Pennies For Your Thoughts – Freedom of Information......Page 76
The Price is Righteous......Page 78
The Press Compressed......Page 81
Money Yells......Page 88
Putting Their Money Where Your Mouth Is......Page 92
Original Spin......Page 98
TMI Inc.......Page 102
3: Codependence Day – Political Freedom......Page 113
Minority Rules......Page 114
You Say You Bought a Revolution......Page 120
The New Deal, Dealt......Page 130
Shadow Puppets......Page 139
Touché Pinochet......Page 145
Global Elites and the Man in the Street......Page 152
4: Hierloom Doom – Freedom of Future Generations......Page 163
There Goes the Neighborhood......Page 165
Inherit the Whirlwind......Page 170
Serfdom 2100......Page 179
5: Socialism and Freedom – Democratic Economic Organization......Page 192
The Big Idea......Page 194
Sanitized Radicals......Page 203
Bolshit......Page 207
Crashes to Ashes, Bust to Rust......Page 211
Zero Books......Page 226
Recent bestsellers from Zero Books......Page 228
Web Links......Page 230
