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.

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

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