In the weeks ahead, the Republicans are set to refuse to lift the ceiling on the US national debt unless the Democrats accept a decisive down-payment in cutting US federal spending towards pre-modern levels. This movement has reached its apogee in two fundamentalist political movements – the American Tea Party movement and, unexpectedly, the British Conservative party. The superior form of economic and social organisation is a minimal state in a universe of moral individuals, families and companies freely contracting with one another in free markets. The quest for a socialist utopia, runs the argument, has proved economically inefficient and politically coercive because socialists deployed the state to achieve their ends, the state is thus economically inefficient and politically coercive as well. The aim has been to conflate the state with discredited socialism. F or some 40 years, the American neo-conservative right has led an ever-more vehement crusade against the idea of the state.
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