I agree: government is neither small nor weak. But I think we may also agree that in the modern neoliberal world, government is merely a handmaiden of private power. Our governance system includes government, but it extends to—and is dominated by—the private sector, including the cleverly named Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), think tanks and other privatized national-security-state cutouts, lobbyist organizations, political parties, all global capitalist corporations, and, of course, those oligarchic social clubs for our ruling elites, like the WEF and Bilderbergers.
Our rulers are hardly going to rely on government bureaucrats and bought-and-paid-for politicians to protect their vital interests and preserve their dominance over the masses.
My beef is with some libertarians who want to blame every evil on government alone instead of realizing that there is actually almost no separation at all between public and private power.
I agree: government is neither small nor weak. But I think we may also agree that in the modern neoliberal world, government is merely a handmaiden of private power. Our governance system includes government, but it extends to—and is dominated by—the private sector, including the cleverly named Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), think tanks and other privatized national-security-state cutouts, lobbyist organizations, political parties, all global capitalist corporations, and, of course, those oligarchic social clubs for our ruling elites, like the WEF and Bilderbergers.
Our rulers are hardly going to rely on government bureaucrats and bought-and-paid-for politicians to protect their vital interests and preserve their dominance over the masses.
My beef is with some libertarians who want to blame every evil on government alone instead of realizing that there is actually almost no separation at all between public and private power.