I don't know of a single jurisdiction that I would call a capitalism. Even the US has socialism mixed in. And for the record, I consider this to be a good thing.don't think I would want to live in a purely capitalist area. I
I've heard Hong Kong was or is a pure capitalist society, but I don't know enough about Hong Kong to evaluate that.
Just because you cannot construct a perfect circle in the real world does not mean that mathmeticians are guilty of a logical fallacy. I am suggesting that capitalism is something the world has never seen outside of approximations, and that anything more is likely impossible.
Unicorns don't exist either but that doesn't mean that you can go cry logical fallacy if somebody says a horse with a horn pasted to it's head isn't one.
Scotsmem of course do actually exist...
You don't seem to have read my comments for comprehension though, so it's not surprising that you're getting hung up here...
If (pure) capitalism has never existed then Marx/Engels would have never written Capitol nor come up with The Communist Manifesto. It was a direct response to what they saw as the failings of capitalism (as in the real thing happening in the world around them, not the concept of it).
To try and argue it is not "True Capitalism" is just BS, and lets you get out of justifying anything you say. "oh I only meant Pure Capitalism, so whatever you say doesn't apply to that" --- It is complete True Scotsman, regardless how much you don't like it.
Freedoms have very little to do with capitalism. It is about private ownership vs government ownership. The right/privilege of ownership doesn't have to apply to everyone either (and thus isn't really a 'freedom'), it can simply apply to a select few (non-government) and you are still practicing capitalism.
> You don't seem to have read my comments for comprehension though, so it's not surprising that you're getting hung up here...
Would you like me to also point out it's a rhetorical fallacy to attack the person making the argument rather than the the argument.
You seem to be under the delusion that I approve of capitalism. On the contrary, I think it is a steaming pile of shit. It's a damn good thing it doesn't seem to appear in a pure form.
As I said, not reading for comprehension. If you read my other comments my viewpoint should become adequately clear. When I say capitalism involves an assumption of rights I'm talking about rights that are only applied to the participant parties (like for example, slave owners). For example, without the right to enter and exit a market, what you have cannot be described as capitalism. Any economist will tell you that. These are rights that should never satisfy reasonable people, such as myself and clearly yourself.
Sounds like a True Scotsman.