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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (171741)	10/2/2005 3:27:51 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Freedom and capitalism have always existed. You think hunter-gatherers weren't free and didn't horse trade? I don't oppose libertarianism, I think it's amusing as an idea but that it doesn't exist in the real world. I've asked you time and again to define libertarianism and it obviously doesn't exist in your head either. If you can't even explain it, how can you build a country from it? I don't oppose capitalism, I am a capitalist but I think the knee-jerk definitions of 'capitalism' like the knee-jerk definitions of 'democracy' are simply wrong and do not exist in the real world either. Free markets, in the economic sense, do not exist in the real world. I've already explained that to you and asked you to show me where you actually see one...in the real world. Where is there a market where transactions are frictionless and costless and where information is immediately available to all participants at no cost? Where? Of course feudalism, repression and slavery are bad. When did anyone here ever say they weren't? Libertarians are liberating what from what? You can't even define the political ideology so how do you define what is free and what is not even before you try and 'free' it?