I am a capitalist. If you are a liberated person, you are living in a capitalist nation. If you are fighting for individual freedom in any corner of this globe you are also fighting for capitalism — because there cannot be freedom without capitalism.
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Capitalism is the literal opposite of slavery. It is self ownership and ownership of the product of ones labor. It is freely chosen mutual exchange and contract. At least that's how I define it.
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Some people clearly did not read the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian's essay linked above about the early history of US capitalism, slavery, how the Northern economy was linked to Southern cotton plantations & then their eventual economic divergence preceding the War.
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Nor is capitalism a singular system. There are many varieties of capitalist political economies practiced globally. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/elizabeth-warrens-theory-of-capitalism/568573/ …
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1) americans didn't invent capitalism??? 2) pretty sure a war was fought specifically because slavery was considered antithetical to liberty
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socialism is literally the central control of industry and capital and therefore PEOPLE - the actual political incarnation of slavery and we are really out here calling black white and white black to get the world comfy with end times economics. nope. not doing it.
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Oh Kim, just let the libertarian bros live in their alternate reality
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Slavery is an institution that predates written language. Markets have helped facilitate the development of every imaginable good, service.
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