Eighteenth-century liberalism held that laissez-faire enriches the state’s power

Evidence

This was the problem, and the answer given by the eighteenth century was ultimately simple and consisted in saying that what will give a place to market freedom and allow its insertion within raison d’Etat and the police state is quite simply that left to itself and governed by laissez-faire the market will be a source of the state’s.enrichment, gro~ and theref6repower.The answer of tllt~ eighteenth century was, in sum, that you will move towards more state by less government. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 622

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘more state by less government’ formula echoes the paradox running through Security, Territory, Population from the previous year’s lectures. — connects to: Eighteenth-century English state power functioned as aristocratic parasitism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1972; Eighteenth-century English ruling power operated as a parasitical racket — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1972; Laissez-faire is itself a form of state regulation, not an absence of it — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 701 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Laissez-faire is itself a form of state regulation, not an absence of it #complicates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 701
• Laissez-faire is itself a form of deliberate state regulation. #complicates (0.85)
• Eighteenth-century English state power functioned as aristocratic parasitism #qualifies (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1972
• Eighteenth-century English ruling power operated as a parasitical racket #qualifies (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1972
• Classical liberalism originally tolerated state intervention and mercantilism. #qualifies (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2088