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Capitalism is Freedom


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2009 Dec 2, 2:35am   10,751 views  89 comments

by Peter P   ➕follow (2)   💰tip   ignore  

I came across this excellent article:

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4399

The only economic system logically correlative to such political liberty was and is a free market. If men have a right to their own lives – and are not the chattel of state or church – including the right to pursue their own happiness, then it follows that they must possess the right to own the product of their intellectual and bodily effort, and to exchange their work and its products voluntarily for whatever other goods they desire. Capitalism is freedom – and this involves freedom of the marketplace fully as much as freedom of the mind.

There are a lot of different emotions going on in the world: healthcare, recession, war, climate change, etc. We must not get lost in the chaos and we must not forget that economic freedom is the only true freedom. We must resolutely reject soft moralism and take a stand. The only real propellant of human societies is, has always been, and will always be economic prosperity.

Evolution favors strength. In societies, economy is the source of strength. The only system that puts Evolution in the context of economy is Capitalism. Please support Free Market wherever it is attacked.

Beware of the following concepts:

  • Economic Justice - it leads to some form of communism
  • A better world - the world has no good or bad, it is all relative
  • Saving the planet - the planet will be here millions years after our extinction, people just want to save themselves

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89   nope   2009 Dec 8, 6:26pm  

kentm says

Kevin, its no coincidence that the poorest societies, the ones where you most commonly find despots, are almost universally the ones who are suffering under having to recover from being systematically destroyed by the ‘freer’ societies in search of wealth, and you’ll usually find that many of the despots have been set up and supported by outside societies in order to continue the pillaging. You should read a bit about what the Dutch did for gems in africa, or what the Spanish did to South America, and there are many examples closer to home if you care to look. The thing that tweaks me about your line of thinking is how conveniently bereft of context and history it is. There is no cause and effect, there’s only what we have currently. Its basically the FYIGM argument.

Not every despotic regime is the result of first-world plundering, nor is every country that is the product of first-world plundering a despotic regime.

...but that's not even the point I was making. I know it's fun to throw our hands in the air and pretend like we can ignore real solutions to poverty by complaining about how europe screwed up so much of the world, but it has very little to do with the simple correlation of which I spoke.

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