Presented to Mr. Robert L. Luddy, Founder and President of Captive-Aire Systems, Inc., Friday, March 2, 2007. Includes remarks from Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mark Thornton, Tom Woods, and Mr. Luddy. The Ludwig von Mises Entrepreneurship Award is given annually to the businessperson exhibiting entrepreneurial success and devotion to the free-market ideal.
The reason we lose? Because we don't repeat that the fact that a coercive state IS violence by definition.
VoluntaryGov 3 years ago
We can win on both terms. :)
The debate we lose is the 'gun in the room' argument.
VoluntaryGov 3 years ago
The problem with this "theology of entrepreneurship" is that it leaves unchallenged the collectivist premise that morality is measured in how useful you are to others. In other words, should the case be made that you are failing to serve the "community", then your life and property are forfeit.
You are attempting to justify Capitalism on the Socialist's own terms. You can never win that fight.
Instead, we must challenge the premise that man exists only as a means to the ends of others.
Punchey 3 years ago
where there is a need there is opportunity
pbhello 3 years ago
One question I ask every socialist that they can never answer is the premise of one of Mises's books: How does economic calculation occur in a socialist state? All the people bashing capitalism, answer me this simple question, really, I need a good laugh today.
readthepaper 3 years ago
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Also little communes in a sea of capitalism have bugger all to do with world socialism.They still have to survive in a market economy.
majorMcpharter 4 years ago
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Supply and demand does not determine need.Needs are only met if a profit can be realised.That is why thousands starve every week in a world of abundance.You idiots.
majorMcpharter 4 years ago
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Full blown lassiez-faire capitalism would be like an arthur daley society on a grand scale.Its screw the planet and the workers, lets make plenty profit.
majorMcpharter 4 years ago
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Wrong again, the human species evolved as a social animal.For the vast majority of human history we lived as cooperative hunter gatherers.
majorMcpharter 4 years ago
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Wrong we have a mixed economy part private and part state owned means of production.Mises and most of these laissez-faire sycophantic minions are clueless.
majorMcpharter 4 years ago