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abortion

What is abortion? - Comments (0)
Doesn’t a fetus have a right to be inside the body of the woman? - Comments (0)
Is abortion a right? - Comments (0)
Is abortion murder? - Comments (0)
What is the capitalist view on abortion? - Comments (0)

anarchism

What is anarchism? - Comments (1)
Under capitalism wouldn’t “corporate organizations” be able to provide all of the physical protection necessary for their customers and or employees, making government unnecessary? - Comments (0)
Why can’t corporations exist without government? - Comments (123)
Why is “anarcho-capitalism” a contradiction in terms? - Comments (0)
What is the solution to anarchism? - Comments (0)
What about the “competing-governments” concept of “anarcho-capitalists”? - Comments (0)
What are some modern day examples of anarchism? - Comments (0)

antitrust

What is antitrust? - Comments (0)
What about Rockefeller’s Standard Oil? - Comments (0)
What is the base of the antitrust laws? - Comments (0)
Don’t the antitrust laws stop monopolistic practices? - Comments (130)
Regarding the Antitrust Microsoft case, don’t consumers have a right to Windows without Explorer? - Comments (0)

campaign financing

What is campaign finance reform? - Comments (0)
What is the essential argument made by advocates of campaign finance reform? - Comments (0)
What is the problem with these so-called ‘campaign finance reforms’? - Comments (0)
What is the real cause of the buying and selling of favors by government officials? - Comments (0)
What is the real solution to the buying and selling of political favors? - Comments (0)
Who will look after the ‘public interest’? - Comments (0)

capitalism

What is capitalism? - Comments (1)
What is the purpose of government under capitalism? - Comments (0)
What is a capitalist? - Comments (0)
What is the foundation of capitalism? - Comments (1)
Historically, has a pure capitalist society ever existed? - Comments (1)
Isn’t capitalism utopian (unpractical)? - Comments (1)
Isn’t Capitalism a bad theory, that works in practice? - Comments (0)
Isn’t Capitalism responsible for children working in factories? - Comments (1)
Isn’t capitalism, which is based on individualism, opposed to man living in society? - Comments (1)
Why is capitalism so despised, maligned, and misrepresented by the intellectuals in our universities? - Comments (1)

children

Do children have rights? - Comments (2)
Why does a child, or adult, have a right to life, and not a fetus? - Comments (0)
Do parents own their children like they own their house? - Comments (0)
Are parents responsible for children? - Comments (0)
Doesn’t capitalism lead to child labor in factories? - Comments (124)
What halted child labor in factories? - Comments (0)
Will labor laws banning child labor in non-capitalist countries put an end to child poverty? - Comments (0)
What is a proper solution to solving child-poverty in third-world countries? - Comments (0)
Isn’t Capitalism responsible for children working in factories? - Comments (1)
Does a man have a right to give his wealth to his children? - Comments (132)

collectivism

What is the key principle underlying collectivism? - Comments (127)
What is the opposite of collectivism? - Comments (0)

competition

What is free competition? - Comments (0)
What is the foundation of free-competition? - Comments (130)
What is the difference between competition under capitalism and competition under collectivist societies? - Comments (0)
What is the key to the success of Capitalist competition? - Comments (0)
Are not competition and cooperation opposites? - Comments (0)
Do individuals lose their rights once they become businessman? - Comments (0)
How does one determine if a given action is anti-competitive or not? - Comments (118)
Do consumers have extra “consumer rights” in additional to individual rights? - Comments (118)
Doesn’t competition mean an “equal playing field”? - Comments (0)
What sets prices of labor under capitalism? - Comments (0)

constitution

What is the purpose of the constitution? - Comments (152)

corporation

Why can’t corporations exist without government? - Comments (123)
What is a corporation? - Comments (113)
Isn’t a corporation a ” legal fiction” created by government? - Comments (124)
How are the laws governing corporations formed under capitalism? - Comments (107)
Isn’t the right to form a corporation, really a “privilege” that can be revoked at whim by the state? - Comments (0)
But how can you treat a group of producers and traders as a single entity? - Comments (130)
What is the foundation of a corporation? - Comments (0)
What is government’s role in regards to corporations? - Comments (146)
My concern, loudly echoed by the left, is that limiting liability is to limit responsibility? - Comments (0)
What are the problems in the legal framework of today’s corporations? - Comments (0)

culture

Isn’t capitalism opposed to progress? - Comments (1)

death penalty

Does a man who murders another man have a right to life? - Comments (0)
What is the proper purpose of the death penalty? - Comments (0)
What is the danger in having a death penalty? - Comments (0)
In regards to the death penalty, how do we ensure that an innocent man is not murdered? - Comments (0)
Should drug dealers be executed? - Comments (0)

democracy

What is the relation of Capitalism to democratic principles? - Comments (0)
What did the founding fathers of America have to say about democracy? - Comments (154)
Politically, in today’s context, what is a capitalist system? - Comments (0)

depressions

Doesn’t capitalism cause depressions? - Comments (0)
What is a depression? - Comments (0)
What causes capital malinvestments? - Comments (116)
What happens when capital malinvestments are discovered? - Comments (0)
How does one prevent depressions form occurring in the first place? - Comments (0)
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929? - Comments (0)
What was the cause of the Stock Market Crash of 1929? - Comments (0)
What was the Great Depression of the 1930’s? - Comments (0)
What was the cause of the Great Depression of the 1930’s? - Comments (0)
What was the New Deal? - Comments (0)

draft

What is a draft? - Comments (0)
Does capitalism support the draft? - Comments (2)
What will a capitalist country do if it is attacked? - Comments (0)

drugs

Should drug dealers be executed? - Comments (0)
Are drugs intrinsically bad? - Comments (0)
Don’t drug’s expand the mind? - Comments (1)
Don’t drugs create “addictions”? - Comments (0)
Are drugs prohibited by government under capitalism? - Comments (0)
What is the solution to the drug problem? - Comments (0)
Who is responsible for making underground drug black market profitable? - Comments (0)

education

Doesn’t capitalism oppose “free” education? - Comments (120)
How is ‘free’ education funded under capitalism? - Comments (115)
What is the price of a ‘free’ state-funded education? - Comments (0)
What do collectivists really mean by “free education”? - Comments (0)
What kinds of ideas are taught by state-controlled (and funded) education? - Comments (0)
How do public and private schools differ? - Comments (123)
Are there any private schools in America? - Comments (160)
Is there a right to education? - Comments (0)
What about those who cannot afford to pay for their education? - Comments (0)
Are not all private schools better because they are private? - Comments (0)

environment

Doesn’t capitalism destroy the environment? - Comments (2)
How does capitalism protect man’s environment? - Comments (124)
What is the solution to pollution? - Comments (0)

exploitation

Isn’t capitalism a system of exploitation? - Comments (112)
What social system exploit its members? - Comments (1)
What is Capitalism’s stance towards exploitation? - Comments (0)
What is the source of the capitalist’s profits? - Comments (0)
Don’t laborers have a right to a share of the capitalist’s profits, in addition to their wages? - Comments (0)
Don’t laborers have a right to a share of the capitalist’s profits, in addition to their wages? - Comments (0)

food labeling

Shouldn’t the government force private businesses to label what is done to food they sell, such as if the food is genetically altered? - Comments (0)

force

What do you mean by the initiation of force? - Comments (0)
Can men use force in self defense? - Comments (140)
Can citizens delegate the right to initiate force to government? - Comments (0)
Does government’s monopoly on the use of force give it the right to initiate (start) force against others? - Comments (0)
Doesn’t the cause of the “public good” justify the initiation of force? - Comments (0)
What is political power? - Comments (0)
What is the difference between economic power and political power? - Comments (0)
How do these forms of power operate under capitalism? - Comments (0)
How are rights violated? - Comments (0)
Are rights guarantees to the success of actions? - Comments (0)

foreigners

What is capitalism’s policy in regard to foreigners? - Comments (0)
Is immigration a problem under capitalism? - Comments (130)
What is a capitalist nation’s policy in regard to dictatorships? - Comments (163)

foundation

What is the foundation of capitalism? - Comments (1)

free trade

What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930? - Comments (0)
What was the end-result of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act? - Comments (0)

freedom

What is freedom in a political context? - Comments (0)
Why does man need freedom? - Comments (130)
What are rights? - Comments (0)
What do you mean by “freedom of action”? - Comments (0)
Are rights guarantees to the success of actions? - Comments (0)

government

What is the purpose of government under capitalism? - Comments (0)
What do you mean by the initiation of force? - Comments (0)
Can citizens delegate the right to initiate force to government? - Comments (0)
What do individuals delegate to government? - Comments (0)
What is the purpose of the constitution? - Comments (152)
What is the purpose of law? - Comments (0)
Does government’s monopoly on the use of force give it the right to initiate (start) force against others? - Comments (0)
How does government carry out its’ duties in practice? - Comments (155)
What would a society be without government, i.e., without the delegation of the use of force? - Comments (0)
What is political power? - Comments (0)

guns

Is the right to own a gun based on the second amendment? - Comments (0)
What is the basis of the right to own a gun for self-defense? - Comments (1)
How is the right to self-defense applied under capitalism? - Comments (123)
Isn’t owning a gun inherently evil? - Comments (0)
Does the right to bear arms include the right to privately owned nuclear weapons? - Comments (126)

history

Historically, has a pure capitalist society ever existed? - Comments (1)
Isn’t capitalism utopian (unpractical)? - Comments (1)
Isn’t Capitalism a bad theory, that works in practice? - Comments (0)
Isn’t Capitalism responsible for children working in factories? - Comments (1)
Isn’t capitalism opposed to progress? - Comments (1)
Is America founded upon religion? - Comments (0)

immigration

Is immigration a problem under capitalism? - Comments (130)

inflation

Doesn’t capitalism cause the inflation of prices? - Comments (120)
What is inflation? - Comments (137)
What causes inflation? - Comments (0)
What is the solution to inflation? - Comments (128)

inheritance

Does a man have a right to give his wealth to his children? - Comments (132)
Doesn’t capitalism “centralize” wealth via inheritance? - Comments (0)

insider trading

Who does “inside” information belong to? - Comments (0)
By what right does the SEC prevent a company’s employees from benefiting from the knowledge they’ve gained by working in that company? - Comments (0)
How may firms use “inside” information? - Comments (117)
Isn’t “Insider” trading an act of fraud? - Comments (175)
What is the philosophical root of the insider trading laws? - Comments (0)

intellectuals

Why is capitalism so despised, maligned, and misrepresented by the intellectuals in our universities? - Comments (1)

isolationism

Is capitalism for isolationism or imperialism? - Comments (0)

labor

Doesn’t capitalism lead to the lower labor wages? - Comments (0)
Isn’t the solution to low wages minimum wage laws? - Comments (0)
What sets prices of labor under capitalism? - Comments (0)
Don’t laborers have a right to a share of the capitalist’s profits, in addition to their wages? - Comments (0)

law

What is the purpose of law? - Comments (0)

lobbying

What is campaign finance reform? - Comments (0)
What is the essential argument made by advocates of campaign finance reform? - Comments (0)
What is the problem with these so-called ‘campaign finance reforms’? - Comments (0)
What is the real cause of the buying and selling of favors by government officials? - Comments (0)
What is the real solution to the buying and selling of political favors? - Comments (0)
Who will look after the ‘public interest’? - Comments (0)

marriage

What is marriage? - Comments (0)
Is same-sex civil marriage protected under capitalism? - Comments (0)
Is interracial civil marriage protected under capitalism? - Comments (0)
Is interfaith civil marriage protected under capitalism? - Comments (0)

money

What is money? - Comments (0)
When is money a sign of greatness? - Comments (118)
What is money a symbol of when it has been earned? - Comments (0)

monopolies

What is a monopoly? - Comments (0)
Are not all monopolies harmful? - Comments (131)
What is the key to a proper discussion of monopoly? - Comments (0)
How does one judge a monopoly, or non-monopoly? - Comments (0)
What happens when a company starts to make a higher profit in its industry, in comparison to other industries? - Comments (0)
What happens if a business attempts to charge prices higher than its competitors (“exploiting”)? - Comments (0)
What happens if a business attempts to charge prices lower than his competitors (“dumping”)? - Comments (0)
How are all harmful monopolies created? - Comments (1)
Are monopolies intrinsically evil? - Comments (0)
Is there such a thing as an “excessive profit”? - Comments (0)

morality

Doesn’t the cause of the “public good” justify the initiation of force? - Comments (0)
When is money a sign of greatness? - Comments (118)
What is money a symbol of when it has been earned? - Comments (0)
Isn’t capitalism immoral? - Comments (1)
Isn’t capitalism justified by the fact it serves the “public good”? - Comments (0)
How are rights moral principles? - Comments (130)
Isn’t capitalism founded upon the evil of selfishness? - Comments (1)
What does it mean to be selfish? - Comments (0)
By what standard does one judge the good from the evil? - Comments (123)
Is selfishness good or evil? - Comments (0)

philosophy

What does philosophy have to do with capitalism? - Comments (0)
How does one determine whether a theory is good or bad? - Comments (182)

poverty

What about the poor under capitalism? - Comments (1)
Is the fact that one is poor, a justification to rob the rich? - Comments (117)
What is welfare? - Comments (0)
What of the poor under capitalism? - Comments (129)
Who is the poor man better off under: Mother Teresa or Bill Gates? - Comments (128)
What do you mean by “rich”? - Comments (132)
What is the cause of mass poverty? - Comments (0)
What is the solution to mass poverty? - Comments (0)
What of those who cannot truly help themselves? - Comments (0)

power

What is power? - Comments (0)
What is economic power? - Comments (113)
What is political power? - Comments (0)
What is the difference between economic power and political power? - Comments (0)
How do these forms of power operate under capitalism? - Comments (0)

profit

Don’t laborers have a right to a share of the capitalist’s profits, in addition to their wages? - Comments (0)
What happens when a company starts to make a higher profit in its industry, in comparison to other industries? - Comments (0)
Is there such a thing as an “excessive profit”? - Comments (0)
What is profit? - Comments (130)
Isn’t the profit motive evil? - Comments (117)
How is a profit made? - Comments (0)
What is not profit? - Comments (0)

racism

Does capitalism cause racism? - Comments (151)

religion

Isn’t Capitalism opposed to freedom of religion? - Comments (126)
What is the relation between religion and socialism? - Comments (1)
Is America founded upon religion? - Comments (0)

rights

What are rights? - Comments (0)
What do you mean by “freedom of action”? - Comments (0)
How are rights moral principles? - Comments (130)
How are rights violated? - Comments (0)
Are rights inalienable? - Comments (0)
What is the fundamental right? - Comments (133)
Are rights guarantees to the success of actions? - Comments (0)
How does one delimit one’s rights from that of another? - Comments (0)

safety

Doesn’t laissez-faire capitalism lead to unsafe products? - Comments (0)
How would the market “regulate” safety and quality? - Comments (0)
How do statists who call for government regulation view the consumer? - Comments (0)
Does the government have any role in the market? - Comments (0)

selfishness

Isn’t capitalism founded upon the evil of selfishness? - Comments (1)
What does it mean to be selfish? - Comments (0)
By what standard does one judge the good from the evil? - Comments (123)
Is selfishness good or evil? - Comments (0)
Isn’t capitalism, which is based on individualism, opposed to man living in society? - Comments (0)

society

Why does man need freedom? - Comments (130)
Historically, has a pure capitalist society ever existed? - Comments (1)
Isn’t capitalism, which is based on individualism, opposed to man living in society? - Comments (1)
What are rights? - Comments (0)
How are rights moral principles? - Comments (130)
Isn’t capitalism, which is based on individualism, opposed to man living in society? - Comments (0)
To what kind of society is capitalism opposed? - Comments (0)
What is a proper society? - Comments (120)

statism

What is statism? - Comments (129)
What are some examples of statism? - Comments (0)
What is the key principle underlying statism? - Comments (0)
How does capitalism differ from statism? - Comments (1)

stocks

What about “stock manipulation” under capitalism? - Comments (0)

tastes

Doesn’t capitalism lead to debased tastes? - Comments (115)
Does capitalism allow a man to indulge in debased tastes? - Comments (129)
What is the art of the capitalist? - Comments (0)

taxation

How is government supported under capitalism? - Comments (0)
How will one support government without taxation? - Comments (0)
Why would voluntary methods fail to work under our present system? - Comments (3)
What about the Fair Tax? - Comments (0)

theory

How does one determine whether a theory is good or bad? - Comments (182)

trade

What is money? - Comments (0)
What is economic power? - Comments (113)
What is the difference between economic power and political power? - Comments (0)
How do these forms of power operate under capitalism? - Comments (0)
How is a profit made? - Comments (0)
What is a proper society? - Comments (120)
How does one obtain property from others if one is not allowed to steal it from them? - Comments (3)
What is trade? - Comments (0)
What does trade mean for the buyer? - Comments (111)
What does trade mean for the seller? - Comments (110)

war

Is capitalism for isolationism or imperialism? - Comments (0)
Doesn’t capitalism lead to wars? - Comments (0)
What is the policy of a capitalist government to other countries? - Comments (113)
What is the policy of a non-capitalist government to other countries? - Comments (0)
What does a capitalist businessman (as opposed to a mixed-economy profiteer) have to gain from wars? - Comments (135)
What will a capitalist country do if it is attacked? - Comments (0)

wealth

Doesn’t capitalism distribute wealth unfairly? - Comments (0)
Whom does our “nation’s wealth” belong to? - Comments (102)
What is wealth a product of? - Comments (0)
In a joint venture how does one determine one’s share of wealth? - Comments (0)
What about “production for use”? - Comments (0)
Are there any limits to wealth? - Comments (0)
Doesn’t capitalism “centralize” wealth via inheritance? - Comments (0)
What is the source of all wealth? - Comments (118)
What’s the difference between paper wealth and real wealth? - Comments (0)

welfare

What is welfare? - Comments (0)

women

Doesn’t capitalism lead to the exploitation of women? - Comments (0)