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RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Liberation under the Piven doctrine effectively becomes a choice by the serfs ?

By Glenn Reynolds

RICHARD FERNANDEZ:

Liberation under the Piven doctrine effectively becomes a choice by the serfs of which aristocracy they believe will do best by them, since worth is determined by the political process anyway. Which side do we back by our ?mass actions?? Liberation becomes the process of putting the ?right? people in charge of the masses. It is not ? it is never ? putting the masses in charge of themselves.

Why not put the masses in charge of their own lives? Because that would require facilitating innumerable transactions and contracts between individuals. That would require self-interest and economic calculation to propel the system. That would mean a market, whose job it would be for the state to keep fair, and that were too little a role for such as Piven thinks should rule the roost.

Meet the new boss, yada yada.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).