Emphasis mine:
Condemning capitalism is nothing new in this country. We’ve heard the angry criticisms all of our lives, and they weren’t novel when we were young. It’s tragic, really, that so many in the West see the tension between “capitalists” and their ideological opponents as merely a conflict between ideas about which economic system we should have.
But it’s more than that. It’s a battle between freedom and subjugation.
Capitalism is not an economic system imposed by government in the way socialism or communism or any form of Marxism or planned economy is imposed on people against their will. Capitalism is merely the economic activity that men will engage in when left alone, when they are free to act as they wish. It is spontaneous, ordered and entirely organic.
When men are free to trade with each other without government intrusion, they will inevitably seek and sell capital. And why wouldn’t they? It is their nature. Innovators and entrepreneurs hungry to make their ideas flesh need capital to fund their ventures. Those who have capital see opportunities to reap profits, so they trade their capital in an open market for profits to be realized later.
This is not exploitation but the manifestation of liberty.
I highly suggest that you read the LAST part of this post at the link below as it talks about how Democrats/Progressives can’t stand this unsubjugated and controlled economic activity as it IS the existential threat to their end goal – absolute political Power.
Why else are they hellbent at this time for the Administrative State vomiting up rule after rule, regulation after regulation, and ordinance and policy at the speed of the largest firehose you can imagine?
(H/T: Issues and Insights)
