"Are human interests, left to themselves, harmonious or antagonistic?"

That's a question from this long article about Frederic Bastiat.

Bastiat did not claim that laissez-faire was bound to produce a state of perfection. His contention was that, where private property is respected, a natural order comes into existence in which individual interests are not antagonistic but mutually supportive. Society then constantly progresses, even though it might never be perfect at any point of time.

Al's efforts at a great article on Bastiat are, as Jed Clampet would say, "Pitiful. Just Pitiful."