Jun 20, 2013
Over the last few years, however, certain reaches of the political Right have developed an outright cult of the capital strike. We can see it, for example, in the resurgent popularity of Atlas Shrugged and its reversal of the strike-novel tropes of the thirties....Every news item, to these apostles of the capital strike, vibrates with the universal political chorus: Do what business wants! Do what business wants! Do what business wants! Or! Else!
Baffler founding editor Thomas Frank on capital strikes and insane Randian island fantasies..Over the boom and through the bust, "To Galt's Gulch They Go"!