ABSTRACT
The second line of argument, in turn, revolves around the unequivocal cele-
bration of market forces and private ownership. Mobilizing both moralistic
arguments such as Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons and utopian arguments about the promises of development and success foretold by free
market pundits, privately owned and market-organized production is invari-
ably portrayed as leading to the most optimal output and the most socially
desirable distribution of value. This twin argument forms the backbone of
the current wave of neoliberalism that renders accumulation by disposses-
sion as desirable as the next version of the Windows operating system.
