Roderick Long on Left-wing market anarchism

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β€œGiven the extensive involvement of state violence in the process by which the corporate elite not only achieved its wealth in the past but continues to maintain and augment it in the present, it is clear that the massive inequalities of wealth that characterise present-day β€œcapitalist” society are radically inconsistent with any approach to justice in holdings that is even remotely Nozickian.”
Roderick Long
β€œSocioeconomic equality and legal equality both fall short of the radicalism of Lockean equality. For neither of those forms of equality calls into question the authority of those who administer the legal system. … Both forms of equality call upon that power structure to do certain things; but in so doing, they both assume, and indeed require, an inequality in authority between those who administer the legal framework and everybody else.”
Roderick Long