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:Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. | :Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. | ||
:: [[Ayn Rand]], “[http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html What Is Capitalism?]” | : The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force. In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of physical force against others. The only function of the government, in such a society, is the task of protecting man’s rights, i.e., the task of protecting him from physical force; the government acts as the agent of man’s right of self-defense, and may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use | ||
:: [[Ayn Rand]], “[http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html What Is Capitalism?][https://courses.aynrand.org/works/what-is-capitalism/]” | |||
* https://www.capitalism.org/ | * https://www.capitalism.org/ | ||
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* [https://www.amazon.fr/Capitalist-Manifesto-Andrew-Bernstein/dp/0761832211?tag=laissez-faire-21 The Capitalist Manifesto] | * [https://www.amazon.fr/Capitalist-Manifesto-Andrew-Bernstein/dp/0761832211?tag=laissez-faire-21 The Capitalist Manifesto] | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:13, 17 January 2023
- Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
- The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force. In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of physical force against others. The only function of the government, in such a society, is the task of protecting man’s rights, i.e., the task of protecting him from physical force; the government acts as the agent of man’s right of self-defense, and may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use
