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

—  Kevin Carson

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

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