[MD] The Class War Has Begun

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi, craigerb at comcast.net:

> Just when we're told "The End of the World Has Come", we're told "The 
> Class War Has Begun".

The disastrous end is always coming. The content is perpetually changing, 
but the agent is almost always people acting in freedom. I've been seeing 
the B.S. predictions in history since at least the early 1800s, when the 
railroads were going to kill all the cattle and horses ... then it was that 
oil was going to run out in the 1850s ... then coal and wood in the 1910s 
... global cooling in the 1970s ... and don’t forget how we were all going 
to be smashed into poverty and have nothing, per Marx ... now it's that we 
consume too much and have too much material abundance. The words change but 
the tune remains the same.

> It does no good to go to Wall St. & say the system is not working.

Advocates of economic liberty have been pointing out that the system is 
heading for trouble for decades. None of this is news to those of us of a 
classical liberal persuasion. The main problem has nothing to do with Wall 
Street or Obama or Bush or FDR or *any person* - it's the nature of the 
system itself, and it began in earnest with the founding of the Federal 
Reserve system. After that, it was a matter of time. FDR and LBJ certainly 
helped make it happen sooner, but the Congresses of the time deserve the 
blame for approving their awful schemes. Repubs aided and abetted it.

> Each person is responsible for finding or establishing an economic system 
> that suits them, without denying others that same right.

Under liberty, people are free to found collectivist communes and either 
operate autarchically or trade externally. Non-free economic systems don't 
permit that same freedom. How undiverse of them!


MRB
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