Defenders of the modern state often claim that it\'s needed to protect us-from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rapacious corporations.
But what if those "countervailing" institution-corporations, government agencies and domesticated labor unions-in practice collude more than they "countervail" each other? And what if network comm.
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, for instance, famously argued that the state was a source of "Countervailing power" that kept other social institutions in check.
Defenders of the modern state often claim that it\'s needed to protect us-from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rapacious corporations