Today, calling a government socialist, social democratic, conservative, or liberal is to ascribe power to it, that is, purport to identify something in it that is not really there but in some other place far out of reach – a place where you can see the filigree outlines of economic and financial\u00a0power, a power that invariably eludes us when we try to get closer, that inevitably\u00a0counter-attacks\u00a0if we whimsically wish to reduce or regulate its domain, subordinating it to\u00a0the\u00a0common good. In other, clearer, words, then, what I’m saying is that people do not choose a government that will bring markets within their control; instead, the market in every way\u00a0conditions\u00a0governments to bring people within its control.<\/p>\n
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