"In a nation of hundreds of local industrial economies, with long-distance rail transport much more costly than at present, the natural pattern of industrialization would have been to integrate small-scale power machinery into flexible manufacturing for local markets. Instead, the state artificially aggregated the demand for manufactured goods into a single national market, and artificially lowered the costs of distribution for those serving that market. In so doing, it drastically increased both market areas and predominant firm size. In effect, it created an artificial ecosystem to which large-scale, mass-production industry was best 'adapted.'" - Kevin Carson, ***MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct*** (2009) https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Moloch.pdf #Agorism #Agorist #MarketAnarchy #MarketAnarchism #MarketAnarchist #Libertarian #Antistate #FreeMarket #Anticapitalism #Quotestr