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| text = [...] why holding up the Gilded Age as a libertarian utopia is wrong-headed. It’s not because the liberty was inequitably distributed. As roger was saying in the previous thread, it’s because America in the 1880s was not characterised by liberty, it was characterised by state capture. Having the government in their pockets gave the robber barons the “freedom” to adulterate meat and pollute rivers, but just as much the “freedom” to send Pinkerton thugs – or Federal troops – to break heads when they didn’t get what they wanted. The heads, presumably, of people who had the freedom to get their heads broken.
'''As always, what minarchists imagine is a system lacking state intervention is rather a system of state intervention on behalf of a privileged class.''' Or perhaps minarchists realise that but have no problem with it, as they only tend to object when the state intervenes to protect the other fellow.
| cite = [[Weaver (pseudonym)]], [http://crookedtimber.org/2010/04/12/more-libertarianism-thread/#comment-311513 "More Libertarianism Thread (Crooked Timber) comment 23.]"
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