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Open to Mr. Robert L. Luddy, Founder and President of Captive-Aire Systems, Inc., Friday, Development 2, 2007. Includes remarks from Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mаrk Thornton, Tom Woods, and Mr. Luddy. Thе Ludwig von Mises Entrepreneurship Award is given annually to the businessperson exhibiting entrepreneurial success and devotion to the free-promote ideal.
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No, my finger pointing is clearly directed at those who exploit the labor of others to advance their own wealth. Government is complicit in this program of stripping wealth from the middle class. The federal income tax has been used by gov and corporations, through their lobbyists, to carve out exemptions for themselves giving crumbs to workers. The result has devastated the working class.
Mises was incorrect,he baffled state run capitalism with socialism/communism.
Ordinary ownership of the earths resources,with production for human need not profit.Problem solved comrades.
Inspired!
No, he just recognizable that both systems were immoral.
The promote economy of capitalism,is destroying the earth.Production for human needs not profit is the way to go comrades.
What collapsed in the ancient eastern bloc was state run capitalism.The state had control of the means of production not the workers,who still had to sell their labour power to the state.Socialism has not failed its never been tried.
Ever heard of the Soviet Empire? It tried that–production for human needs only–and their environment was degraded beyond imagination. Today, we don’t have right capitalism even if–it’s corporatism, which is the joinder of industry and govt. That degrades the environment and our rights. So, in one way, you and I agree.
We don’t HAVE capitalism right now. We have a mix linking socialism and capitalism, commonly called corporatism, as cato said. You’re using the straw man fallacy, by marking corporatism as equivalent to capitalism.
Below right capitalism, property rights would ensure minimal pollution.
Look at the deforestation of siberia below Soviet rule, look at the radioactive waste they dumped.
Besides, environment is not the only concern, reckon about the genocides we invariably get below socialism.
How can you determine human needs? Only supply and demand can determine these factors. The debate over how socialism was to determine what to produce went on in the 1930′s linking many economists, and I’m sorry to say but the marxists lost that one.
You but seem to have no fundamental understanding of economics, and are using emotionally-striking one-liner rhetoric. Learn about economics and why socialism never works. Learn about history and see examples of socialism failing. Then talk.
Really, it HAS been tried. There were a excellent dozen towns founded in America where money was outlawed, and right socialism was attempted. These never lasted more than a decade.
Then there are Kibbutz. But these are all state sponsored by taxing more productive people outside of their collective system.
“Socialism: Excellent thought, incorrect species” Humans aren’t made for this, and thank god for that. Imagine the agreement required, all would be the same, brainwashed to keep it below control.
The soviet empire was a brutal dictatorship.With the means of production below control of the state,not the workers.That is STATE RUN CAPITALISM.
Incorrect we have a mixed economy part private and part state owned means of production.Mises and most of these laissez-faire sycophantic minions are clueless.
Incorrect again, the human species evolved as a social animal.For the vast majority of human history we lived as cooperative hunter gatherers.
Full blown lassiez-faire capitalism would be like an arthur daley society on a grand scale.Its screw the earth and the workers, lets make plenty profit.
Supply and demand does not determine need.Needs are only met if a profit can be realised.That is why thousands starve every week in a world of abundance.You idiots.
Also small communes in a sea of capitalism have bugger all to do with world socialism.They still have to survive in a promote economy.
Three cheers for capitalism.I take pleasure in sitting in my bentley counting my money.
Invest in china,lots of low-cost labour.These mugs have made me loads of profit.
One question I question every socialist that they can never answer is the premise of one of Mises’s books: How does economic calculation occur in a socialist state? All the people bashing capitalism, answer me this simple question, really, I need a excellent laugh today.
where there is a need there is opportunity
The problem with this “theology of entrepreneurship” is that it leaves obvious the collectivist premise that morality is measured in how helpful you are to others. In other words, should the case be made that you are failing to serve the “community”, then your life and property are forfeit.
You are attempting to justify Capitalism on the Socialist’s own terms. You can never win that struggle.
Instead, we must challenge the premise that man exists only as a means to the ends of others.
We can win on both terms.
The debate we lose is the ‘gun in the room’ argument.
The wits we lose? Because we don’t repeat that the fact that a coercive state IS violence by definition.
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