Capitalism Is Worst System Except for the Rest

[Lafayette]

Great article in defense of free markets, the start of it makes we want to punch someone but it ends well :D

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aR6Eq.uqJAyA&refer=home

[Truth Warrior]

http://www.capitalism.org/ (http://www.capitalism.org/)

[sevin]

http://www.capitalism.org/ (http://www.capitalism.org/)

That's a fantastic site, BTW. I highly recommend the virtual tour.

[Truth Warrior]

That's a fantastic site, BTW. I highly recommend the virtual tour. Glad you like it. :)

[Truth Warrior]

CAPITALISM:
A Treatise on Economics (http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf)
by George Reisman


http://www.capitalism.net/images/cap_150.jpg (http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf)


The Clearest and Most
Comprehensive Defense of the
Capitalist Economic System Available
1096 pp. hardcover


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http://www.capitalism.net/index.html (http://www.capitalism.net/index.html)

[Bradley in DC]

I just logged on to post this. Kudos on a good find.

[Truth Warrior]

I just logged on to post this. Kudos on a good find. If directed to me, thanks! :) If not, "Hey what about MY stuff?". :D

[Andrew-Austin]

http://www.capitalism.org/ (http://www.capitalism.org/)

Its really just a bunch of Ayn Rand quotes layed against a nice background, I doubt you'd appreciate their page on anarchism.

[Truth Warrior]

Its really just a bunch of Ayn Rand quotes layed against a nice background, I doubt you'd appreciate their page on anarchism. Well, since I'm an "individualist autarchist", why would I care? < ROFL > :D

I could maybe be a minarchist. Just reduce the WORLD'S governments ~99.999%.

[wizardwatson]

Well, since I'm an "individualist autarchist", why would I care? < ROFL > :D

I could maybe be a minarchist. Just reduce the WORLD'S governments ~99.999%.

I'm opposed to labels generally, because I usually need a new one every year or two, but I'd never heard "autarchism" before.

I like the term much better than anarchism. Anarchist has a confrontational connotation, kind of like 'atheist'.

[Truth Warrior]

I'm opposed to labels generally, because I usually need a new one every year or two, but I'd never heard "autarchism" before.

I like the term much better than anarchism. Anarchist has a confrontational connotation, kind of like 'atheist'. I've hauled that one around for just about four decades now. ;) :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchism)

[wizardwatson]

I've hauled that one around for just about four decades now. ;) :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchism)

Wow, thanks for turning me on to this LeFevre guy:

"Thus, any study of freedom must concern itself primarily with a methodology rather than an objective." -Robert LeFevre

Just looking at some of his articles.

Like him already.

[Truth Warrior]

Wow, thanks for turning me on to this LeFevre guy:

"Thus, any study of freedom must concern itself primarily with a methodology rather than an objective." -Robert LeFevre

Just looking at some of his articles.

Like him already. :cool: He was my original libertarian mentor. ;) Kinda like my Morpheus.

Ah, the "red pill" epiphany. :)

http://www.voluntaryist.com/lefevre/ (http://www.voluntaryist.com/lefevre/)

The Illegality, Immorality, and Violence of All Political Action
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpost.php?p=1537946&postcount=109 (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpost.php?p=1537946&postcount=109)

[The_Orlonater]

Well, since I'm an "individualist autarchist", why would I care? < ROFL > :D

I could maybe be a minarchist. Just reduce the WORLD'S governments ~99.999%.

That's what we minarchists are about.

[Truth Warrior]

That's what we minarchists are about. Moot point, while the state still grows.<IMHO> :(

[The_Orlonater]

Alas, you are correct. We're witnessing the "Great" depression all over again.
Except with our weird 21st century twist.

[Truth Warrior]

Alas, you are correct. We're witnessing the "Great" depression all over again.
Except with our weird 21st century twist. Both of them, Fed produced.<IMHO> :p

Abolish the Fed!

[The_Orlonater]

Yup.

End the Fed.

[1000-points-of-fright]

http://www.capitalism.org/ (http://www.capitalism.org/)

That tour gets a little Utopian at the end. For all Ayn Rand's talk of reason, she sure takes a turn towards magical thinking.

And what the hell does this mean?


A society where art is not a disorganized pile of scratches, scribbled by a drug-induced hippie with his eyes closed, but is an enlightening masterpiece, showing man as he could be and should be: a hero.

Sounds kind of elitist to me. If a drug-induced hippie wants scribble a disorganized pile of scratches and sell it as art, it's his right as an individual. And if someone else wants to buy it, that's their right. Who is Ayn Rand (besides a hypocrite apparently) to proclaim what is or isn't art?

[mediahasyou]

http://www.fahnenversand.de/fotw/images/s/se%7Dakf.gif

[heavenlyboy34]

I've hauled that one around for just about four decades now. ;) :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchism)

n/m, I found it. :)

[Truth Warrior]

That tour gets a little Utopian at the end. For all Ayn Rand's talk of reason, she sure takes a turn towards magical thinking.

And what the hell does this mean?



Sounds kind of elitist to me. If a drug-induced hippie wants scribble a disorganized pile of scratches and sell it as art, it's his right as an individual. And if someone else wants to buy it, that's their right. Who is Ayn Rand (besides a hypocrite apparently) to proclaim what is or isn't art?

Ayn ain't for everybody.<IMHO> < shrug > :) ( I understand where see was coming from. ;) )

[1000-points-of-fright]

Ayn ain't for everybody.<IMHO> < shrug > :) ( I understand where see was coming from. ;) )

I understand her too. I just think she would be better received if she were less of a Utopian. And less of an elitist bitch.

Are Objectivism, individualism, reason, and capitalism the most practical and fair philosophies? Yes. Would everything be just peachy all the time? No.

[Truth Warrior]

I understand her too. I just think she would be better received if she were less of a Utopian. And less of an elitist bitch.

Are Objectivism, individualism, reason, and capitalism the most practical and fair philosophies? Yes. Would everything be just peachy all the time? No. She is. She's dead. ;)

[heavenlyboy34]

She is. She's dead. ;)

I lol'd, sesei. :D