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born 1963 United States

Kevin Amos Carson (born 1963) is an American author, anarchist and political theorist.

United States
Anarchists
Economists
Essayists

Also known as: Kevin A. Carson, Kevin Amos Carson

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The manufacture of foreign crisis and war hysteria has been used since the beginning of history to suppress threats to class rule.

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege (2011)

War crimes are only committed by defeated powers. (But as the Nazis learned in 1945, unemployed war criminals can usually find work with the new hegemonic power.)

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege (2011)

From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is nostalgically called "laissez-faire" was in fact a system of continuing state intervention to subsidize accumulation, guarantee privilege, and maintain work discipline.

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege (2011)

Capitalism was founded on an act of robbery as massive as feudalism. It has been sustained to the present by continual state intervention to protect its system of privilege, without which its survival is unimaginable.

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kevin Carson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.