Laissez-Faire vs. Welfare State

[Redalgo]

Welfare State (I/O)

[Njall]

Welfare State (I/O)

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The doctrine of laissez faire was to the nineteenth century what Leninism was to the twentieth.

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[opebo]

Not at all; the welfare state is only necessary within capitalism  because workers are generally unable to survive on just their labor, as the ruling class extracts said fruits. That's what wage labor is; theft.

Where did you steal that one from; Marxism for Infants?

Its still a better post than any non-Marxist one.