Lew Rockwell regularly features Paul Craig Roberts’ commentary — so long as it fits his anti-state narrative. When it doesn’t, despite being meritorious, it doesn’t get included for very transparent reasons.
No surprise, then, that we don’t find this February 14, 2013 Paul Craig Roberts article, While Left and Right Fights — Power Wins, published by LewRockwell.com in the intervening days.
Here is the reason why Rockwell didn’t include it, since Roberts correctly identifies the fundamental problem being the concentration of power — not its location:
“The right is correct that government power is the problem, and the left is correct that private power is the problem. Therefore, whether power is located within the government or private sectors cannot reduce, constrain, or minimize power.“
Previously, I wrote the article, Did Lew Rockwell and the Daily Bell influence Michael Snyder to abandon his call for nationalizing the Federal Reserve?
[...] 1) Lew Rockwell “banned” this Paul Craig Roberts article — we think you have the right to see it [...]
If limited government is a unicorn, the absence of government is two unicorns.
Care to develop this argument?
Let’s get the facts right straight off the bat: Rockwell did not ‘ban’ this article, he simply chose not to publish it on his blog, and who can blame him? It’s an unexceptional piece that yet again comes to the conclusion that the solution is the kind of ‘limited government’ that Tom Woods rightly calls a “unicorn”.
I’ve written about ‘minarchism’ on a number of occasions, and about Roberts’ brand of monarchism in particular at least a couple of times. There is nothing new to see there: just the same old fallacies and the same misguided call for people to join Roberts on a unicorn hunt, when in fact what’s actually needed is an exorcism of ghosts.
http://consentient.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/when-will-you-stop-believing-in-ghosts/
Looks like Mr. Roberts crossed the line of correctness and endangered the minds of the hate-the-state faithful. Therefore, one for the memory hole.
Good catch.