The myth of 19th-century laissez-faire is useful to statists on both the left and the right. As contemporary market anarchist Kevin Carson observes, “advocates of the regulatory-welfare state must pretend that the injustices of the capitalist economy result from the unbridled market, rather than from state intervention in the market,” since otherwise “they could not justify their own power as a remedy.” And by the same token, “apologists of big business” need to “pretend that the regulatory-welfare state was something forced on them by anti-business ideologues, rather than something they themselves played a central role in creating.”

This is the state of mainstream American right and left politics. IMO this flows in the MSM because it is criticism of the actions of the system, but does not question the nature of the system itself. The debate ties commercials together.

I don't consider myself an anarchist; however, I do find value in the questions that anarchists raise. IMO we are a long way from finding the right answers to these questions, but it's important that we start asking them more often. Otherwise, we aren't going to find a soft landing post-Capitalism.