[201] in libertarians
Re: submission
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Tue Sep 13 12:47:50 1994
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 12:41:46 -0400
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: TJIC@icd.teradyne.com
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU
>I raise the minor quibble that Capitalism is not a "system" which
needs to be implemented, but the natural and unplanned result of free
people interacting with each other.
If you consider the desire of (some) people to control others through
coercive agents (like the state) to also be natural for people, then
Capitalism can be viewed as a system that needs to be implemented (i.e.
protected from these coercive agents). I view it the same way that
free speech is a policy that needs to be "implemented" (e.g. by the
1st Amendment to the Constitutuion) even though it can be said to be
a natural state of affairs.
Vernon
