23 Replies to “The Clear Case For Capitalism”

  1. Yes, most everyone loves pizza. What’s not to like about the essential ingredients of pizza – dough, cheese, and fatty meats. However, not all pizzas are created equal. Take anchovies for example. You wanna make me walk away from a pizza? Put anchovies on it. So when the author begins to explain how Apple is putting anchovies on my capitalistic pizza, by making iPhones where labor is slave-priced, and they get to freely pollute someone else’s country … I turn up my nose. You cannot force-feed THAT pizza to me.

    The author seems to believe that MY President’s pro-America, repatriation of manufacturing work is somehow … anti-capitalistic. Hardly. If anything, Globalism (without ONE centralized World Government) is shockingly anti-capitalistic. Globalism, in its current form is what I shall term; regionally-monopolistic. Shithole countries that happily KILL the Free Marketplace by removing all environmental regulations, and worker freedoms (such as UNIONS and collective bargaining) are behaving as monopolistic manufacturing centers. Yeah, shock! I am actually saying that UNIONS are part and parcel of a FREE MARKETPLACE! But of course, they are. A FREE MARKETPLACE does not exist where the workers are slaves. A free marketplace exists where buyers and sellers … and workers … are free to find their wealth. Slave wages and environmental death creates wealth for some … and destroys it for others. THAT is not “wealth” … that is monopolistic wealth. It doesn’t matter if Apple builds the electronic equivalent of the great pyramids… if they do it on the backs of cheap (slavish) labor and environmental degradation … then their monument is not built to capitalism. It is built to fascist/communist governments skewing economic outcomes.

    The only way to make Globalism into Capitalism is to FREE the workers … by FREEING all the world’s governments. But that is not what the Globalists who annually meet at Davos have in mind. What the Globalists have in mind is a one-world, centralized government that will have the power to create and destroy FREE markets … just as they have been doing.

    1. I don’t see how tariffs (whether put in place by Trump or anyone else) are anything but anti capitalistic. They are a tax put in place to discourage you from spending your money how you like. I’m sure you would object to a carbon tax put in place to discourage you from driving a pick up truck. Tariffs are no better.

      The right way to protect jobs are supply side. It worked for Reagan and it’s working for Trump, with his tax and regulation cutting.

      1. How do you feel about the tariffs China places on American products? After you answer that question … I’ll ask what you think of their theft of intellectual property.

        I am dying to hear how you cram those little details into your Free Market Capitalism box

        1. Tariffs are bad, and theft is bad. Were you expecting me to support either of those?

          1. American shareholders are repeatedly told that China is “the next big market” for American goods sold by American corporations … yeah … some market. Massive Tariffs against American products. Protectionism and theft. Some market. Don’t be stupid. There is NO SUPPLY-SIDE in China … Just a Communist Dictatorship impeding the sale of American goods.

            MY President is not behaving contrary to capitalism … rather he is fighting against the “anti-capitalistic” practices of a totalitarian communist dictatorship. Per the example given by this writer, MY President is simply negotiating the terms for our trade. Wise parties will settle for an equitable, win-win, outcome. Selling-out our Nation … as all our prior Presidents … has NOTHING to do with Free Markets. It’s surrender and capitulation.

            You appear upset that MY President is refusing to BUY the rope with which to HANG our nation? Supply-side suicide is an unsustainable marketplace

    2. Under socialism, everybody gets the same pizza, except only the good party types get any dough.

      That will end because pizza is bad for you and there’s only enough for the patriots in their gated communities.

  2. This is an excellent article – I have copied the shortcut and have forwarded it to friends and family.
    Our father always said “Change is going to happen, whether you like it or not. So you better prepare for change, by educating yourself or looking for other, different opportunities.” Nothing stays the same forever (thank goodness!), the only constant is change. Capitalism, by its competitive nature is ideally positioned to deal with change.

  3. The killer is the graph “Price changes 1996 to 2016”. Everything the government controls (education, child care, medical care) has increased in cost by over 100%. Everything the government has no control over (TVs, toys, software) has dropped in cost by at least 40%.

    Another important take-away is government stepping in to subsidize a monopoly (like education) which only makes it more expensive.

  4. There’s only one flaw in his argument, and it’s unrelated to capitalism – about which he’s entirely correct. The flaw is this. The biggest reasons to slap ruinous tariffs on China are:

    1) to stop their out-of-control polluting everything in sight, whereby their people are dying of loathsome diseases to enrich the Politburo while their “social credit” spy-cameras look on approvingly (think Mongolia and the rare-earth refineries) and political detractors get re-educated or ‘disappeared’,

    2) to ensure that we over here can afford heating oil, a much higher cost of living and a defence force – against China: see below, and

    3) to put an end to China stealing our high technology. By its very nature, Chinese manufacturing is uncompetitive with us – why bother developing your own high-tech when your competitor (whose uncle is local commissar) will just steal it from you and use it to force you out of business? Much cheaper to just steal from the West – Russia boasted that it developed 3% of its own and stole the rest from us at pennies on the dollar – and China has amply demonstrated, with its nine-dash line, hypersonic weapons, aircraft carriers and OBOR-destabilizing of its inland neighbours, that it is a hegemonic power bent on regional domination. If it was interested in playing fair, well and good for it – but Tibet, Tienanmen Square and the Muslim ‘re-education camps’ show how interested Xi is in playing fair. All his detractors in Taiwan are slated for the dirt nap – and the West is next – but first he has to steal the high-tech that’ll make it possible, from us.

    We stand together against the enemy, or die alone.

  5. China is at war. Their primary goal is to destroy the Western world. They have no interest in competing on an even footing.

  6. Not so clear in US universities. Michael Snyder Via Zerohedge, http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/50-actual-college-course-titles-that-prove-that-americas-universities-are-literally-training-our-college-students-to-be-socialists

    #1 Harvard University: FRSEMR 62O—Who is a Fascist? Culture and Politics on the Radical Right

    #2 Princeton University: FRS 139—Marx in the 21st Century

    #3 Yale University: AMST 469a—Progressivism: Theory and Practice

    #4 University of Alabama: SW 351—Oppression & Social Justice

    #5 University of Florida: WST 3349—Ecofeminism

    #6 University of Florida: POT 4053—Great Political Thinkers: Machiavelli to Marx

    #7 University of Kentucky: SOC 235—Inequalities in Society

    #8 University of Missouri: PSYCH 4984—Promoting Social Justice, Diversity, and Inclusion Capstone

    #9 Middlebury College: AMST 0269—Beyond Intersectionality: Developing Anti-Racist and Anti-Capitalist Feminisms

    #10 Middlebury College: ECON 0405—Economics of Discrimination

    #11 University of Minnesota: AFRO 1917—Inequality and the American Dream

    #12 University of Minnesota: SOC 3507—Immigration to the United States: Beyond Walls

    #13 University of Minnesota: CSCL 3405—Marx for Today

    #14 University of Minnesota: CI 5137—Multicultural Gender-Fair Curriculum

    #15 University of Iowa: GWSS 1005—Introduction to Social Justice

    #16 University of Iowa: GWSS 2045—Working for Social Justice

    #17 University of Illinois: GWS 337—Interrogating Masculinities

    #18 Indiana University: GNDR-G 330—Looking Like a Feminist: Visual Culture and Critical Theory

    #19 University of Maryland: WMST 300—Feminist Reconceptualizations of Knowledge

    #20 University of Michigan: WOMENSTD 434—Eco/Queer/Feminist Art Practices

    #21 Michigan State University: ANP 859—Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change: Methods and Application

    #22 Ohio State University: WGSST 3200—Breaking the Law: An Introduction to Gender Justice

    #23 Penn State University: AFAM 147—The Life and Thought of Malcolm X

    #24 Purdue University: OLS 45400—Gender And Diversity In Management

    #25 University of Wisconsin: HISTORY 346—Trans/Gender in Historical Perspective

    #26 University of Wisconsin: GEN&WS 536—Queering Sexuality Education

    #27 University of Wisconsin: AFRICAN 233—Global HipHop and Social Justice

    #28 Williams College: AFR 342—Racial Capitalism

    #29 Williams College: AMST 219—Understanding Social Class

    #30 Williams College: ENVI 103—Global Warming and Environmental Change

    #31 Amherst College: POSC 407—Contemporary Debates: Gender and Right-Wing Populism

    #32 Amherst College: SWAG 351—From Birth to Death: LGBTQ Life Trajectories

    #33 Swarthmore College: ENVS 043—Race, Gender, Class and Environment

    #34 Swarthmore College: RELG 032—Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology

    #35 Swarthmore College: RELG 033—Queering the Bible

    #36 Wellesley College: AMST 281—Rainbow Republic: American Queer Culture from Walt Whitman to Lady Gaga

    #37 Wellesley College: SOC 205—Modern Families and Social Inequalities

    #38 Carleton College: POSC 275—Black Radical Political Thought

    #39 Pomona College: AFRI144A—Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change

    #40 Pomona College: GWS142—Queering Childhood

    #41 Claremont McKenna College: GOVT113—Inequality, Politics, and Public Policy: Class, Race, and Gender

    #42 Davidson College: SOC 356—Feminization of Poverty

    #43 Butler University: RI379—The Problem of God

    #44 Creighton University: ANT 178—Global Citizenship

    #45 DePaul University: LGQ 338—Sexual Justice: Lesbians, Gays and the Law

    #46 Georgetown University: WGST 250—The Breast: Image, Myth, Legend

    #47 Providence College: SOC 418—Globalization and Social Justice

    #48 St. John’s University: SOC 1170—Inequality; Race, Class and Gender

    #49 University of Pennsylvania: RELS 110—American Jesus

    #50 University of Pennsylvania: URBS 050—Womanism and Identity Politics in the Realm of Hip-Hop

  7. As hb March 10, 2019 at 3:04 pm and Shamrock March 10, 2019 at 4:02 pm already explained here https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2019/03/10/capitalism-delivers-the-promises-that-socialism-fails-to-deliver/#comments , the terminology is “free enterprise”.

    Yes capitalism is a made up word by certain Marx to seduce the masses to make them think that people that come up with widgets that everybody wants should do “fair share” and just give it to the idle idiots that claim to be victims. Yeah, they are victims all right, of their own stupidity and laziness.

    Capitalists are people with money they did not work for, like certain Soros, the guy just schemed and extorted money from Britain and other countries. Though it must be said that he did this legally. In an interview with 60 minutes he agreed that it should be illegal though it was not and he took advantage.
    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=soros+60+minutes+1998&&view=detail&mid=0FEABA9A776D3561E2C80FEABA9A776D3561E2C8&rvsmid=E1D5182FD9D6ACF01B84E1D5182FD9D6ACF01B84&FORM=VDRVRV

    You may remember in late 80’s or early 90’s of the past century the Canadian dollar went so deep it almost lost itself. The government knew the culprit though it never told who it was,

    Free enterprise on the other hand is creative and of course prosperous if it makes a widget that people want to buy. It, of its own has no money. It has to go to the capitalists, generally bankers, to borrow to make the widgets. It does go to the money markets to sell shares to acquire capital to produce the stuff it wants to sell.

    One of the biggest bloody capitalist are teacher pension funds. The same teachers that teach children and young adults how capitalism is ripping them off.

    Would anybody that bought shares in companies call himself a capitalist? Probably not, though in real sense they are, they provided the capital for the company to operate. The company itself is not capitalistic, they just borrowed the capital they plan to repay to the capitalists. In the process they have to make a lot of money in order to pay for labour, power supply, rent or real estate, taxes and other such incidentals and for paying dividends to those that invested the capital.

    They put their mind in it, their labour and energy. It has zero obligation to be charitable enterprise.

    Yeah, it’s called free enterprise.
    Spread it around.

    1. Agreed. And, I would suggest that he is the biggest internal enemy of our civilization that there is at the moment. The other main enemy is largely external with a dangerous importation occurring that will trouble us in the future.

      1. Does it bother your conscience that you voted for the Liberal Party — the architect of socialism in Canada.

        How will you compensate the people of Canada for the plague imposed on its hard working citizens by the LPC?

    1. Smart man … you’ll get to eat the whole damnned pie!! Greed is good. Although that greed may also clog your arteries and kill you dead. Restraint is why Stock traders say … Pigs get fat, Hogs get slaughtered.

  8. Why do we accept the Marxist term to describe our economic model? How about the clear case for free markets?

  9. To stick with the writer’s theme…

    It’s not just convincing them that capitalism is ‘yummy and nutritious’ like a calzone, it’s warning them that socialism is nothing but one big shit sandwich.

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