[ExI] Under the libertarian yoke

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Wed May 21 05:35:40 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/8 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>:
>
>>  ### This is a *government cartel*, don't you know? To spell it out,
>>  "OPEC ..... is  ....  a.... cartel .... of...... governments". Not a
>>  cartel of oil companies.
>
> So how would you prevent a cartel of companies, or for that matter an
> oligarchy of companies that own everything and have an army of paid
> enforcers, not unlike the House of Saud?

### Kill them before they become too strong.

This is not a flippant answer, all appearances to the contrary.
Segmentation can and should be defended. Formation of de facto
governments should be prevented, whether they are formed by oil
companies, or revolutionary workers.

Rafal



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