Bolivia approves new draft constitution

[ef11vr8k]

Well done dictator Morales

[ef11vr8k]

The best way to trade is to rob private companies. Ill gotten gains and full rejection of protectionist international laws is the future way to make Bolivia rich. Pretending to allow international companies to pour their investment capital into Bolivia to set up profitable ventures and then to forcefully nationalise these ventures is an excellent short term strategy.

[luisfvalle]

The New Constitution of Bolivia, enacted by President Evo Morales Ayma - English Version - Available June 26th, 2009

[2PacChopra]

USA doesn't even own their own natural recourses. They're largely privatized.

Bravo!!

[ericdhroe]

sustained poverty might have something to do with colonialism

[stratvic]

"sustained poverty might have something to do with colonialism " Colonialism and statism and socialism and communism and mercantilism. The free market seems to be the best method we have based on experience and evidence of lifting people out of poverty. That's the free market that is not confused with state run and controlled capitalism.

[woawoa2008]

There has not been anywhere where free markets exist. Even if they were, wealth would be still in few hands and the private tyrannies would be even more powerful. Free markets can only exist without coercion, but coercion is going to happen in your theoretical system where the people will have no voice.

[stratvic]

The free market exists within every society. The free market is nothing but a voice for all participants to determine what products and services are produced. Every dollar you earn or spend is a vote in the market.

[nassermashadi]

What experience and evidence is there of free markets exisiting any where, let alone lifting people out of poverty ?

[stratvic]

China, India, Eastern Europe, US, ...at least to the extent they embrace the free market.

[PlasticJesus341]

You do realize that all of those examples (with the exception of China but I'm not even sure if you can call their communist revolution embracing of the free market) have horribly oppressed workers who are dirt poor. Russia who turned to free market saw its health care and social security systems collapse and workers wages decrease drastically. 52% of Russians think that they are better off with a communist system.

[stratvic]

The extent workers operate in the free market is the extent to which they are free. Oppression means force, free market means lack of force and entails the action of willing buyers and willing sellers. To the extent workers are oppressed in those countries is the extent to which they are governed through political means, forced through slavery or other forms of coercion that do not exist within the definition of a free market...else it is not free.

[alessandroiscool]

Look around you dude, capitalism-"free market" isn't working. So, as a human race, I think we must create an alternative world here on earth if we want to survive. An alternative world where there is peace, real democracy, equality and a general consensus among the world's population that we must be free, physically and intellectually. We must survive as a race, human race that is.

[stratvic]

What if consensus is not possible?

What if equal outcomes is the road to serfdom (as opposed to equal opportunity)?

What if peace is is to be found through tolerating individualism, freedom from interference from others, and through voluntary participation with others (i.e. the free market)?

.... What if the opposite of the free market is tyranny (by the majority or some other basis for ruling over others)?

Is political democracy or the democracy implicit in the free market the ideal?

[MUN7001]

no duh lol

[stratvic]

Bolivia, embracing sustained poverty through the implementation of failed ideology.

[RAPMONSTAR]

who are you some kind of proffesor??

[calvinjones]

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