Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“In empirical terms we are living during one of the most economically unequal periods in modern history, across multiple measures. … An empirical evaluation of the relationship between capital and the state requires us to analyze capital’s dependence on state power, the extent of state-corporate symbiosis or capture, and the relationship between the state’s many favors and the real-world outcomes we observe. The evidence strongly supports the conclusion that this extreme inequality is the result of mechanisms that fall within a broad, structural definition of rent extraction through state power.” (08/02/25)