"Konczal contrasts the 20th century welfare state with what came before — but his historical context doesn’t go back far enough. He is correct that the system of “private charity” that existed before the Great Depression was inadequate. But he fails to note the role of the state in still earlier times in suppressing a thriving ecosystem of self-organized working class mutual aid. As Kropotkin described the process in The State and Mutual Aid, the newly risen absolute states o...
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