Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Randolph Bourne said
government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
Our war is teaching us that patriotism is really a superfluous quality in war. The government of a modern organized plutocracy does not have to ask whether the people want to fight or understand what they are fighting for, but only whether they will tolerate fighting.
Where this was said
↗Untimely Papers (essays of 1917-1918, published 1919)gutenberg.org
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