“1) the individual is the basic unit of society. 2) the human individual is a rational being. This means that his consciousness is voluntary (free will) and conceptual and that his basic means of understanding the world and surviving in it comes from reasoning. 3) as a reasoning being he is sovereign. This means he alone creates values and acts to gain them. 4) a person can only remain sovereign in a social context by legally recognizing that sovereignty and protecting it through the establishment of rights (social Restraints on the use of force) 5) capitalism is the economic system that recognizes that human life relies on reason and that reason relies on liberty. 6) capitalism is the economic system that bans force from all economic exchanges. IOW’s it is applied liberty.”

Mark Pellegrino