Capitalism has been drowned out by over a century and a half of practiced altruist ethics (which is totally compatible with communism) reducing all good to the ‘common good’, Statists took advantage of the deontological ethics of altruism and contradictions in our founding documents to slowly wheedle away at rights, eventually destroying the concept altogether by inflating them to claims to stuff in the mid twentieth century. But before the iron claw of the state peeled back our liberties, freedom made us the most prosperous and innovative state in the history of the world. Even as the progressive left were tearing away at the fabric of liberty to create a faux social contract of duties, the free market was raising the standard of living for all. And it’s still doing it despite the exponentially higher centralization of market actors and banks today. Something [communists] should be for. So pal, your tired recycled argument that capitalism is only an abstraction of the mind is false. We can directly see how states prosper in relation to the level of freedoms that they maintain through lawful protections of property and rational action. It’s not magic that the freest societies in the world are the wealthiest. It’s economic LAW. This is not abstract. This is reality. It is the law of identity you fight when you impose centralization on an economic system and expect it to produce a thriving economy. It can’t. The calculation and knowledge problems are unsolvable obstacles to the economic success of your economics. This is not an abstraction. It’s a fact. Do you understand that human liberty… protected by government… leads to human prosperity… and your system of controls and political leveraging impoverishes? Do you see that workers cannot vote values into existence… and that commissions cannot create an economy and that neither make men free?
Mark Pellegrino
