The untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat. In the real world there are prolonged periods when market forces are NOT self-correcting. Stability can only be restored by collective, that is, government action. If stability goes uncorrected for long enough, breakdown may give rise to totalitarian regimes.
Cooperation is as much part of the system as competition.
But today we seem determined to dismantle those stabilisers brick by brick. Advertising, marketing, even packaging aim at shaping people's preferences rather than, as laissez-faire theory holds, merely responding to them. What used to be professions have turned into businesses. The cult of success has replaced a belief in principles. Libertarian dogma is now a religion, totally antagonistic to the kind of minimal governmental intervention you should take for granted.