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American revolutionary Patrick Henry wrote, "Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship." In 1956, no so long ago, Ludwig von Mises published a small book entitled The Anti-capitalist Mentality. In it, he tried to understand and explain why the social organization of capitalism – the very engine of progress and prosperity – is misunderstood by average people, discredited by politicians, and hated by the intellectual and chattering classes. He points out that representative government – the foundation of any republic – has a "constitutional corollary." This constitutional corollary is "economic freedom, consummated in the market economy (capitalism)."
My objection to that work concerns partisan ignorance. How can I explain?
The legal criminals stole the word “capitalism” from honest people who do not plan on and then follow up on the injury of innocence, on purpose, for profit (plunder).
Capitalism is now a term that describes legal crime whereby people who call themselves capitalists plan on and follow through with the injury of innocent people, on purpose, for profit.
That part of my objection is intimately known by many people including Hugo Chavez.
The usurpation of the word “capitalism” from honest people who do not intend to harm anyone, by false advertising, or any other pre-planned, pre-judged, and pre-arranged method of injuring unsuspecting and vulnerable people (consumers at large) is much like the usurpation of the word “socialism” from honest people who do not intend to harm anyone, by false advertising, or any other pre-planned, pre-judged, and pre-arranged method of injuring unsuspecting and vulnerable people.
Example:
http://www.anarchism.net/scienceofsociety.htm
If Protestantism, Democracy, and Socialism are merely different expressions of the same idea, then, undoubtedly, the confluent force of these three movements will expand tremendously the sweep of their results, in the direction toward which they collectively tend.
What, then, if this be so, is this common element? In what great feature are Protestantism, Democracy, and Socialism identical? I will answer this interrogatory first, and demonstrate the answer afterward. Protestantism, Democracy, and Socialism are identical in the assertion of the Supremacy of the Individual,--a dogma essentially contumacious, revolutionary, and antagonistic to the basic principles of all the older institutions of society, which make the Individual subordinate and subject to the Church, to the State, and to Society respectively. Not only is this supremacy or SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL, a common element of all three of these great modern movements, but I will make the still more sweeping assertion that it is substantially the whole of those movements. It is not merely a feature, as I have just denominated it, but the living soul itself, the vital energy, the integral essence or being of them all.
Another example exists to clearly illustrate how honest people who intend to harm no one on purpose for profit have their terms stolen from them.
Between the time where the law of the land in America was The Articles of Confederation and then The U.S. Constitution a group of people called themselves REBELS.
The Rebels were also Federalists or Con-Federalists. These Rebels had their “Federalist” label stolen from them by “Nationalists” who hid behind the stolen name “Federalist” and then these “Nationalists” glommed on the name “Anti-Federalists” to anyone who rebelled against the change from The Articles of Confederation to the U.S. Constitution.
Example:
http://www.wakeforest.edu/~zulick/340/henry.html
What, sir, is the genius of democracy? Let me read that clause of the bill of rights of Virginia which relates to this: 3d clause:—that government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community. "Of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of mal-administration; and that whenever any government shall be found inadequate, or contrary to those purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal."
That brings me to the crime of stealing the true meaning of democracy from the honest people who do not plan for and then execute plundering the innocent victims by deceit, trickery, torture, and mass murder.
Democracy was once a peaceful means of abolishing criminal governments before people were left with no power other than ‘tax avoidance’ by deceit or open rebellion.
Why has ‘capitalism’ maintained it shiny coat through all this while ‘socialism’ continues to be demonized?
What happened to accurate currency? Why snuff out true meanings of words used by honest people who successfully rebel and avoid suffering tyranny where the tyrants plan on and execute false advertized capitalistic profiteering?
Example:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3883148810958929341
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
And my final objection concerns which Austrian school will earn the support of honesty peaceful people who do not intend to harm people on purpose for profit.
Example:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north512.html
One solution is free banking. This was Ludwig von Mises’ suggestion. There would be no bank regulation, no central bank monopolies, no bank licensing, and no legal barriers to entry. Let the most efficient banks win! In other words, the solution is a free market in money.
If the revolution includes a currency monopoly, then that is socialism. If there is no law that punishes competition in the currency markets, then that is socialism.
The ability to employ terms is not the same thing as the power to enforce the meaning of terms.
Last edited on Wed Jun 11th, 2008 12:53 pm by Joe Kelley