TT's Lost in Tokyo — by TokyoTom

Yesterday I stumbled across the July 23 repost in LvMI Daily of Walter Block’s article, IsThere a Right to Unionize?, which apparently originally appeared on LewRockwell.com, January 1, 2004.

I left the following comment:

Funny how Walter finds not worthy of mention the coercive role of the state in setting up limited liability corporations, whose founders and owners are absolved from personal responsibility for the injuries their creatures and managers (whom otherwise would be the Agents of the shareholders) cause to others (including to workers).

These favors to “capitalists” led naturally to abuses against workers (both by corporate-hired thugs and by formally “public” policemen) and more broadly to society (pollution, anyone?), which in turn led to the pro-labor laws and vast public health and safety regulatory state that Block and others at LvMI decry.

Is libertarianism only skin-deep here? Where are the heavyweights who see that the only way to roll back Big Government is to insist on an end to limited liability and other “protections” of shareholders that have served only to generate institutionalized moral hazard, opacity and unaccountability?  

One does not have to scratch very hard to see the hand of the state, via corporations, police and the military, in both initiating violence against workers and in forcefully ending it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence