Revised Rejoinders to Douglas J Amy – Is Government Good?

In his essay entitled The Forgotten Achievements of Government, Amy asks the reader to consider several of government’s indubitable achievements; his goal, as always, is to present government as a necessary, vital institution, which performs a valuable service in behalf of humanity. The position of this essay is rather the contrary: that government enables an otherwise unsustainable capitalist system, doing so by the generous application of violent measures which would be unnecessary if capitalism were to be abandoned.