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Originally Posted by MagnumPI
I don't know how you gathered that, or read all those articles in such a short time. I mean in the Rothbard article, he specifically cites 2 examples of unfettered trade. China wasn't one.
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not an answer. Do you or do you not stand by your previous statement?
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Originally Posted by MagnumPI
Capitalism is specifically a divorce from government managed trade.
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I believe you are incorrect.
Your own source concedes that there are differing forms of capitalism, yet you cling to a very narrow definition which fits the framework of your arguement.
If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences. Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence.